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TIL Pierce Brosnan lost both his wife and adopted daughter to ovarian cancer.

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x6kvo TIL that the right to form and to join trade unions is a universal human right as per the universal declaration of human rights.
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dDjVK TIL that in 1942, the Indian Confederation of America, representing 27 tribes across the U.S., Canada, and Central America, named Stalin as an Indian Chief for his role in the successful defense of Moscow.