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TIL our calendar skipped 11 days in September of 1752.

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9aG7 TIL that it was common for prisoners in the Soviet Union to tattoo Marx, Lenin, and Engles over their vital organs, because the firing squads could not shoot images of the USSR’s founding fathers.
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