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TIL that the Soviets used mobile gas chamber vans to execute groups of counter-revolutionaries during The Great Purge of the 1930's

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POVZ TIL the readers of Rolling Stone magazine named Nickelback the second worst band of the 1990s… behind only Creed
YRQd TIL that despite working for the BBC as a broadcaster and dying as recently as 1950, there are no known recordings of George Orwell’s voice.
l7E6B TIL: Mauritanian girls are force fed up to 16,000 calories a day to make them more attractive to men
5V7G8 TIL in the 1970s hysteria over the arrival of killer bees in the United States created a genre of "killer bee movies". One of the most well-known movies was the 1978 film "The Swarm", directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Caine. It scored 9% at Rotten Tomatoes.
GYl7 TIL there’s an Immortality Drive on the I.S.S. that has the DNA sequence of Stephen Colbert