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TIL that "re-elected" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro worked as a bus driver before joining politics

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DQw7r TIL a sheep farmer in France became a national hero, wrote a best seller book and ran for president after he took his tractor and drove it through a mcdonalds as a protest because he hated what the fast food restaurant was doing to farmers.
5Yg6k TIL Bambi is listed in the Top 25 Horror Movies of all Time by Time magazine. Bambi, Time states, "has a primal shock that still haunts oldsters who saw it 40, 50, 65 years ago.”
4Y1J TIL the origin of the word “decimate” as we use it today came from the Roman military practice of punishing groups of soldiers by executing every 10th man
nwpW TIL that a campfire is significantly worse for your health than a cigarette, and some studies have shown that there may be 30x the amount of carcinogens in woodsmoke than tobacco smoke.
X0WQ TIL Thomas Edison had his people steal a copy of A trip to the Moon (1902, listed as the 82nd best movie ever made) and made a fortune from it while the creator and founder of modern cinema Georges Méliès who planned on taking it to America ended up bankrupt shortly after.