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TIL Jim Morrison was a vocal advocate for overweight people

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N70db TIL that in Nazi Germany people who were classified as Jewish could challenge their classification in court. This included looking for Jewish facial features but since anti-Semitic clichés on Jewish appearance were so exaggerated and stereotyped, the average litigant did not show these features.
WkxdY TIL With a population of under 1000, Vatican City has a national football team consisting entirely from employees of the Vatican. In 2011 they faced Palestine where they fielded an entire squad of Catholic priests, Palestine beat them 9-1.
m10bR TIL Titanic Officer, Charles Lightoller later assisted evacuation efforts in Dunkirk during WWII. The character, Dawson, in the Christopher Nolan film, was inspired by him.
JYZmm TIL that Legionnaires' disease is named such because of an outbreak in 1976 which killed 29 and infected 182 American Legion members during an annual state convention. This new bacteria was found to be coming from the air-conditioning units on the hotel roof.
K9pG TIL that there are domesticated foxes in Russia that can be owned in the United States