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TIL The Mexican Communist Party was founded by MN Roy, who was an Indian.

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ojd7 TIL: In 1957, a luxury airliner mysteriously crashed in the Pacific while carrying multiple people with motive, means, and opportunity to cause the disaster. The mystery has been unsolved for almost 60 years.
ZpwnQ TIL that Karl Silberbauer, the Nazi police officer who raided and arrested Anne Frank and her family, bought her diary to see if he was mentioned in the book.
VWxZ TIL Susan B. Anthony once said that the invention of the modern bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” and called it the “freedom machine”
rNd4d TIL of Ken Forsse, an Disney Imagineer whose company Alchemy II was put in charge of the animatronics on the Disney Channel show the Welcome to Pooh Corner. Nearly broke, the company switched to toys using the animatronic technology used in Disney rides. The result? Teddy Ruxpin.
yQ9Ov TIL a young man was killed when his head became stuck underneath a cinema seat as he looked for some possessions he’d dropped