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TIL Lenin and Stalin once teamed up to rob a bank.

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p8RkA TIL The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 6000 km to the very bottom of the deepest sea trench, is known as the Hadal zone, named after Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology. More people have been to the moon than have explored the Hadal deep.
kyeW TIL that in Brazil they are treating burns with Tilapia skin.
Eg8XW TIL: Cormac McCarthy's inspiration for The Road was when in El Paso, TX with his young son "McCarthy looked out the window late one night and imagined what the city might look like in fifty or one hundred years and saw: "fires up on the hill and everything being laid to waste"
LMJQ TIL a former bonded child labourer from Pakistan escaped the carpet factory at the age of 10, helped free over 3000 kids from slavery, helped bring down Pakistani carpet exports by $34 million, before being murdered at the age of 13.
XEOQE TIL Gene Wilder did not tell the public about his Alzheimer's diagnosis, because, "He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the world."