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TIL In order to make it seem like the Nazi party was doing good things, the unemployment statistics from Germany stopped including women, Jews, and young men.

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VNgQ TIL Cuba’s infant mortality rate still among lowest in world. In 2015 Cuba’s infant mortality rate was 4.3 per 1,000 live births–with 535 child deaths out of 125,064 births recorded in the year.
Bra0x TIL the phrase "Low Man on the Totem Pole" has come to mean the opposite of what it should; the "Low Man" on the totem pole was often the most talented and valuable part of the totem pole creation process.
X0v8Q TIL that Vietnamese Communist independence leader Ho Chi Minh allegedly said that he would prefer to eat French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for 1,000 years.
ywXJ TIL the Soviet Union created a fake mental disorder (Sluggish Schizophrenia) to arrest anyone who criticized the leadership until the 1970s
b6eO9 TIL Brumotactillophobia is the term for the phobia of different foods touching each other, a usual occurrence in the OCD experience.