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TIL that his mother was the only person that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was afraid of.

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LkdJv TIL the success of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution has been attributed in part to soccer hooligans, whose experience in street brawling and resisting police was useful in protecting the mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square from being cleared out by police.
ZmaG TIL that “sell by” and “best by” dates are unregulated and have no relationship to safety, part of why Americans toss 160 billion pounds of food every year.
dGxE TIL that ghost peppers are used in India as a repellant to ward off elephants, preventing them from eating and destroying crops
R7vn8 TIL The famous Alt+F4 sequence comes from the 1987 standard IBM Common User Access, which influenced most keyboard shortcuts which last till today
6EDj8 TIL the number of stay-at-home dads in the US actually dropped after 2010 - it went from 2.2 million in 2010 to 2 million in 2014.