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TIL that the first point of the 1919 electoral program of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was "Universal suffrage on a regional basis, with proportional representation, vote and eligibility for women."

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kPK7 TIL that a clause in the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery “except as a punishment for a crime” so that prisons could use inmate labor.
9YO7M TIL the education minister of Kazakhstan deemed SpongeBob SquarePants too violent for children, labeling the titular character a "self-absorbed hooligan" who "regularly inflicts violence on others in his community and seems to enjoy what he does."
BrQkx TIL that the name of the band Cage The Elephant came after an incident where a mentally disturbed man approached them after a show, hugged the lead singer Matt Shultz and kept repeating the sentence 'You have to cage the elephant'.
yQ5Nw TIL ‘The Mountain’ actor from Game of Thrones beat the 1,000-year-old world record for taking 5 steps with a 10-meter log that weighed 1,430 lb.
W7O5L TIL Catholic and Coptic Orthodox people claim to have seen the Virgin Mary (the so-called “Marian apparitions”), the first in 40 AD in Zaragoza (Spain) and the most recent in 2009 in Warraq, Egypt. These apparitions have even taken place in countries where Christianity is not the dominant religion,