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TIL A Party conference in Soviet Moscow ended with a tribute to Stalin. Nobody wanted to be the first to stop clapping. After 11 minutes of clapping a factory director stopped first and everybody else followed. That night he was sent to a gulag for 10 years.

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X06Mj TIL that the ancient city of Carthage practiced child sacrifice, as evidenced by the tophets, burial grounds for young children and infants.
grAw8 TIL Albert Göring, the younger brother of prominent Nazi leader Hermann Göring, was opposed to Nazism, and helped many Jews escape Germany. He was shunned in post-war Germany because of his family name, and died without any public recognition.
loaYa TIL that the 'PSV' in the name of the Dutch football club PSV Eindhoven translates to 'Philips Sports Union', and was originally formed to serve the need for leisure activities of Philips employees.
VjaD TIL in a 1980s Nike commercial, a Kenyan tribesman’s words were translated as “Just Do It”; however, American anthropologist Lee Cronk alerted Nike that the Kenyan really said, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike responded back saying “We thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)