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vPEr7 TIL about "The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law", an Austro-Hungarian center-left Joke Political Party made to mock the cautious and measured approach of some mainstream political parties of the time.
VaEQ TIL “Surprise me” were the last words of the 100 year-old, legendary comedian Bob Hope, responding to his wife’s question regarding where he would like to be buried.
rNYk1 TIL That John Lennon became an activist because Paul McCartney talked to Bertrand Russell about the vietnam war.
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