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TIL Pitbulls were once commonly used as babysitters

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VMAyZ TIL that shortly after assuming power, Hitler used the burning of the German Parliment, the Reichstag building, to declare a national emergency crisis, consolidate power, and begin taking away civil liberties.
Eg5Zw TIL that in 2004, 1/3 of the men in the Pitcairn Islands were accused of assault. Their defense rested on the fact that British sovereignty of the islands was illegitimate, as the colonists were descended from Royal Navy mutineers. A new Court had to be created specifically to have jurisdiction.
4oB5 TIL that when Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia in 1777, saying beer was superior for “breakfast drinking,” people started drinking a coffee substitute called “Muckefuck.”
pQr8 TIL there is no word for “please” in Danish.
E1ekx TIL : Another factor for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest was the death of Chinese reformist Hu Yaobang and rapid market economic reform. and at their last stand, the protester sings the international socialist anthem to protest the Chinese leadership for betraying their original ideas.