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TIL: China's Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 where 1.5million were killed and millions more improsined, tortured and had their property seized.

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kOLd4 TIL the Saint Louis Arch is as wide as it is tall (630 feet x 630 feet)
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pjWb TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was so bored as VP of the United States that he seriously considered finishing law school while serving.
5YNdR TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen
8eEpV TIL George Picquart, an anti-semitic French army officer, helped to convict fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, of treason. Subsequently promoted to lead the secret intelligence service, he then discovered and exposed the conspiracy that had framed Dreyfus, eventually toppling the government.