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TIL Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov, shot himself because of Stalin’s harshness toward him, but survived. Afterwards, Stalin said “He can’t even shoot straight”

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WZmL TIL of Princess Olga of Kiev who, after being courted by the same tribe that killed her husband, proceeded to bury the tribe’s messengers alive before accepting the proposal and burning the men sent to collect her alive
aglM TIL that the first recorded use of OMG was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill
6XJm TIL the tomb of China’s first emperor has never been opened due to a river of poisonous mercury that flows inside it.
b9Ve0 TIL about ultramarathoner Jasmin Paris, who won the 268-mile Spine race in 2019 in a record setting 83 hours 12 minutes, while stopping at aid stations to express milk for her daughter.
4Xe6g TIL in an experiment where subjects were told to allocate funds to other subjects, they would always favour members of their own group, even though they didn't know who the groupmembers were, had never met them, and had been arbitrarily put into their group.