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TIL a lunch lady got fired for feeding a hungry kid free of charge

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X0X9P TIL the last Communist leader of East Germany, Egon Krenz, is still alive. He spent 4 years in prison for crimes committed as a high-ranking politician in East Germany. He also still defends the former East Germany, is a Russophile, and believes that the Cold War never ended.
l7EBK TIL during visit to a state built flat in communist Poland Picasso spontaneously drew a painting on a wall of some random folks living room It was painted over in 1953 by a couple who lived there and couldn’t handle hundreds of strangers wanting to come in and stare at their wall.
dg7Z TIL that it was illegal in Soviet Union to not have a job
rRW7y TIL that in the 1870s margarine, the economical rival to butter, was mandated in New Hampshire to be dyed pink in order to help dairy farmers. The reasoning: nobody would buy pink margarine.
Yd6G TIL the Third Amendment, protecting against quartering of troops in a residence, has only had one major court case in the history of the United States.