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TIL that after the Tienanmen Square Massacre, the Chinese government billed the families of the protesters for the cost of the bullets used to kill their loved ones.

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jRYQ TIL that the Indian army uses the world’s hottest chili pepper to make non-lethal grenades.
gMVAL TIL that Alessandra Mussolini, the daughter of Axis dictator Benito Mussolini, is Sophia Loren's niece, released a #1 pop record in Japan, appeared in topless in Playboy, has acted in a dozen films, and has been a member of Parliament since 1992
oBnYW TIL a Hiroshima policeman went to Nagasaki to teach other police officers to duck and cover in the days between the bombings. Not a single officer died in the Nagasaki blast.
9Y0nr TIL that Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" is actually about a tambourine man
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