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TIL Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible beat his daughter-in-law so badly that she miscarried her baby. When his son was angry about the beating, Ivan struck his heir in the head so fiercely that he died 5 days later.

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9YEL6 Today I learned that the person who voices Aizawa in MHA voiced characters in other animes.
OGklg TIL the heiress to the Brach’s candy fortune disappeared in 1977 (and was presumably murdered) because she threatened to expose the “Horse Murders Scandal,” in which expensive show horses were killed to collect insurance money
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VmQp TIL the Comic book code of 1954 specified that “Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.”
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