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TIL Ronald Reagan's post presidency office was in Fox Plaza, where Die Hard was filmed.

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e0wOn TIL Soviets were so helpless against the SR71-"Blackbird" that Reagan sent some to secret Soviet meetings, creating sonic booms and drawing figure eights over, letting them know they were being watched and can't do a thing about it.
loA9B TIL about the Polish Operation of the NKVD (Soviet security police) in ‘37-38, which was an anti-Polish mass ethnic cleansing operation carried out in the USSR, ordered by the Politburo, resulting in the sentencing of 139,835 people, and summary executions of 111,091 Poles.
4Xx0o TIL: A man found guilty of deer poaching has been sentenced to a year in prison, and has been ordered to watch Bambi at least once a month during that year
8e7oG TIL the government of North Korea owns and operates a chain of over 100 "Pyongyang" restaurants around the world
OXEe TIL: In 1919, Chicago Irish gangs in blackface attacked and burned Polish neighborhoods because the Poles weren’t racist enough against blacks.