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QJKKe TIL In 1937 in The Soviet Union, Stalin's name was mentioned at a Meeting. Everyone Rushed to Ovation and Began Clapping. However, Nobody dared to be the 1st to Stop Clapping. The Ovation Lasted 11 Minutes. The Factory Director became too Tired and stopped. He was Sentenced 10 years in Gulag.
8eyZ4 TIL the 1st US Congress proposed 12 amendments to constitution. 10 were ratified as the Bill of Rights and another was ratified in 1992. The twelfth, The Congressional Apportionment Amendment, is still eligible to be ratified and would increase the House of Representatives to over 1,700 members.
9KLX TIL Hitler considered the Japanese “Honorary Aryans” because of their “racial integrity.”
9wOMD TIL There is a kind of kite that work underwater, call tidal kites. In fact it is high-tech tidal turbines, generating electricity from the power of the ocean.
nedOr TIL that the correlation between kids spending time indoors reading books and poor eyesight is due to Vitamin D deficiency.