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TIL in the early 1930s, Stalin killed about 3.3 million Soviet Ukrainians under a plan to kill peasants in order to seize their land. After starving in mass numbers as a result of Stalin’s orders, Stalin blamed Ukrainians and used this as a pretext for even harsher measures.

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jO0p TIL that the major American health insurance companies are one of the largest holders of fast food stock and other forms of investments.
OoDAY TIL that a man in Japan in 1933 jumped into a volcano crater to end his life. Over the next two years hundreds would also jump before a barrier was erected to prevent people from jumping.
aABZ TIL the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council account for 67% of all global arms exports
oWDK TIL that in 1983, a man confessed to his wife’s murder after part of a female skull was discovered in a peat bog near their home in England. He was convicted based on this confession. The skull turned out to be from someone who actually died about 1750 years earlier.
7XLx TIL that trees in the red forest, a forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, are not decaying because organisms that recycle organic matter suffer from radiation as well.