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TIL Wealthy Chinese Sometimes Hire Body Doubles To Serve Prison Sentences

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b6YL4 TIL The way vehicle environmental regulations are calculated is causing new trucks to be built larger over time
4XZxN TIL during the trial of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, their just-appointed lawyers joined with the prosecution and accused their own clients. The trial lasted about one hour. The Ceausescus were sentenced to death and immediately executed.
9wPkX TIL former US President Grover Cleveland got married to his adopted daughter while in office.
rRPEe TIL that after Puyi, the last Emperor of China, was dethroned, he worked as a street cleaner and would visit the Forbidden Palace as a tourist and point out the various objects on display that he used to own as Emperor.
nP6B TIL Winston Churchill received a prescription for alcohol when he visited the United States during prohibition, his Doctor writing, “The quantity [prescribed] is naturally indefinite”.