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TIL that in the Sailor Moon universe, there was an openly homosexual character named Sailor Uranus, and her girlfriend was Sailor Neptune.

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lovDA TIL of the Nazino Affair, a brutal USSR plan in which 6,000 political prisoners and criminals were rounded up and deported to an isolated island in Western Siberia, surrounded by guards and left only with flour. The society soon descended into anarchy and cannibalism; 4,000 died after only a month.
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