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TIL Governments have killed more people than every pandemic and war combined.

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JbJm TIL a slave during the 1800s transatlantic slave trade cost 400X what a slave costs today on average
PYA4V TIL An amendment abolishing the US Senate was proposed by socialist Representative Victor Berger in 1911, due to his belief that the House was corrupt as well as useless to the country as a whole.
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