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TIL the CIA actively helped Indonesian dictator Suharto massacre an estimated 1 million suspected Communist Party sympathizers in 1965, providing training, mass media suppression, and lists of individuals whom they later acknowledged as being innocent.

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OWGX TIL The previous United Airlines CEO was payed out $37 million after quitting amid a corruption investigation
7rl6Z TIL that a man biked from Paris through France, Spain and Morocco, eating only out-of-date food that would have been thrown away, to draw attention to the epidemic of food wastage. He continued his campaign by crossing the Atlantic on a pedal boat, getting all of his calories from expired food.
pPXb TIL in some countries like Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, Women get paid Menstrual leave each month, and in some cases get extra pay if they decide to work through their period.
NXeLN TIL the Tsar Bell has been destroyed in fires twice. The current version is the largest bell in the world, and has never been rung. However, students at UC Berkeley simulated it's ring in 2016.
e0Gyb TIL that Kim Pyong-il, Kim Jong-il's brother, was assigned as an ambassador for 40 years to ensure he couldn't influence North Korean politics: he was sent to Yugoslavia in 1979, then to Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland and the Czech Republic, and didn't return to his home country until 2019.