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TIL of the Holodomor, “Extermination by hunger”, a man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine

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6EV78 TIL the owner of a DC bar, Kamal Jahanbein, shuts his business down for one month each year to go build schools in impoverished villages, and has been doing it since 1994.
arKA TIL the actor who played “Bane” Tom Hardy is a former drug and alcohol addict who now helps people that were once in his shoes.
B5LW TIL that in 1963, JFK went on a western conservation tour to promote the environment
6E8l8 TIL in accordance with his wishes, the body of George Carlin was cremated, and the ashes scattered in front of various nightclubs he played in New York City and over Spofford Lake, in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, where he attended summer camp as an adolescent.
nWXkd TIL about the Orgone Accumulator, a 1950s device claiming to attract massless, omnipresent substance healing energy. When the FDA was investigating the device, they noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for 4 hrs"