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TIL 15 human feet wearing shoes have washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest since 2007.

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d84kd TIL according to declassified Soviet archives, during Stalin’s great purge of 1937/1938 over 1.5 million people were detained, of whom 681,692 were shot (an average of 1,000 executions a day). In comparison, the Tsarists executed 3,932 persons for political crimes from 1825 to 1910.
1NP7 TIL pillbugs are actually crustaceans and not insects
Jw6m TIL that a small portion of the population can voluntarily control their tensor tympani muscle, causing a low rumble in the ear.
bpd4 TIL the University of Delaware had a MANDATORY “ideological reeducation program” for dorm students indoctrinate them on approved views on politics, race, sexuality, and more. Students who refused to participate, or to praise the program when it was under investigation were threatened with expulsion.
gME58 TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils