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TIL A man sued his wife for being ugly, and won.

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pAPe TIL Tina Turner is no longer an American citizen. She has passed a German language test and Swiss history test and is exclusively a Swiss citizen after giving up her American citizenship.
0dXaR TIL that the incentor of Pilates: Joseph Pilates, took inspiration for his exercises from cats, during British internment during WWI.
ANbLw TIL of Luigi Galvani, an 18th-century Italian scientist, discovered "animal electricity" when he observed frog legs twitching in response to metal probes.
EgZDP TIL San Francisco allows people to park in the middle of the road ("the median") on Sundays on certain streets. For many years, law enforcement gave the blind eye to the practice in the name of ‘parking for God’ so people can go to church, it became permissible by law officially in 2018.
eLJn TIL there is a giant limestone wall in Bolivia that has over 5000 dinosaur footprints on it. The 462 tracks were made by 8 species over 68 million years ago.