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TIL about the Nazino Tragedy where 6,000 people were deported from the Soviet Union to an island where there was no food, shelter, or water. Within 13 weeks, over 4,000 died or disappeared and signs of cannibalism was present on some of the bodies.

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p8oEe TIL Pete Townshend of The Who was caught in a wide ranging pedophilia ring and admitted to paying for a child porn site. He was given a slap on the wrist.
V9RQ TIL in 1927, Calvin Coolidge walked outside of his vacation home to waiting reporters, handed them a slip of paper that said, “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen-twenty-eight.”, took no questions, and went back inside.
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