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TIL there are 11 surviving people born in the 1800s.

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wGKP TIL Mao murdered 76,692,000 Chinese. This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.
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