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TIL Stalin sent most of his qualified doctors to the gulag, a move which inevitably came back to bite him in the ass when he had a stroke from which he later died.

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8a7kK TIL a French beekeeper trained bees to produce honey out of resin from marijuana plants
WKl8 TIL Black Americans preferred staying with British Soldiers during WWII due to the abuse their fellow Americans hurled at them. Americans even tried to implement segregation in the UK.
kJwBg TIL of Deborah Sampson, an American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight for America during the American Revolution. After she was found out to be a woman, Paul Revere helped her to become the first woman in history to receive a military pension.
oBlj8 TIL all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads
Xejr TIL that members of congress receive access to classified intelligence information without going through a background check – and many of them wouldn’t pass it if they did.