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TIL that prior to his death, Roger Ebert enjoyed the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, calling it "without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject".

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QaDL TIL Russian criminal and prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
ojwA TIL Maine prohibits drug testing of most employees and requires an employer to pay 50% for rehab if an employee is found using, after good cause to test is established and has to wait 90 days to retest. They may not fire someone for one failed drug test
QJ6Nd TIL about "wateraid.org": a charity organization that is "determined to make clean water, reliable toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation". In 2018-19, they brought 206,000 schools clean water, 182,000 schools decent toilets, and 695,000 schools good hygiene.
XRgP TIL of the Phantom Time Hypothesis, which claims that the events of c. 600-900 AD actually happened concurrently, not over the course of 300 years, meaning that the correct current year in the Anno Domini dating system would actually be closer to 1716.
KAaJ TIL that the CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was called “Operation Castration”