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TIL that politician Boss Tweed was brought down by Thomas Nast's cartoons, which painted him as the embodiment of corruption. Tweed said to aides, “Let's stop them damned pictures. I don't care so much what the papers write about—my constituents can't read—but damn it, they can see pictures.”

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4Xr0J TIL that in the 1930s, the Communist Party of Germany allied with the Nazi's (who they referred to as "working people's comrades"), to overthrow the Social Democratic government under the belief that a Nazi government would collapse and lead to a Communist one gaining power
nWvb7 TIL of the MARAUDER program, an experimental plasma railgun system that shot lightning balls with "devastating thermal and mechanical shock." It was also said to emit a strong EMP to scramble electronics. It became classified in 1993, with few references to it since.
VBAO0 TIL that originally the Barbie movie was supposed to come out in 2018, with Amy Schumer as Barbie.
Ej0o TIL hand grenades got their name from the French word for pomegranate
aOZL TIL that Vanna White hasn’t actually turned any letters since 1997, hasn’t wore an outfit more than once on the show and holds the Guinness World Record for clapping.