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TIL that after Attila the Hun died, his soldiers plucked out the hair of their heads and made their faces hideous with deep wounds, so that the great warrior should not be mourned by effeminate wailings and tears, but by the blood of men

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DQByg TIL about Robert Dale Owen, a utopian socialist, feminist, and radical secularist who moved to the USA in 1825 and became an influential member of the Democratic Party. He was also highly influential in Indiana politics
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