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TIL: FDR changed the date of Thanksgiving to make the Christmas shopping season longer.

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691k7 TIL that despite Rupert Murdoch's large media attention, media billionaire David Thomson, who owns all of Reuters, is over three times as wealthy ($61B). Despite this, he's only given a single substantive interview, ever.
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VB1j4 TIL: About the "Tyrant King" Yeonsangun of Korea. Known as the worst tyrant in Korean history he launched 2 purges, seized hundreds of women to be "entertainers", and turned the royal university into a pleasure ground. His father, the previous king, was known as being liberal and kind.
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XpO8 TIL: Israel’s history of selling USA’s secrets to China goes back to the 1980’s. China acquired advanced military tech & weapons from Israel then re-exported to Pakistan, Iran, etc. Also, Israeli military companies opened offices in China for sales. CIA said profit was “several billion dollars.”