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TIL that 40% of the recruits in the Red Army in the 1920s had whip marks on their backs, a punishment used by boyars and landlords for rebellions caused by hunger.

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OAR TIL that if you removed all of the empty space from our atoms, you could fit the entire human race into a volume the size of a sugar cube
y0Me TIL that when a priest asked Voltaire to renounce Satan, Voltaire’s last words were “Now is not the time for making new enemies”.
b9OKZ TIL that Norah Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar. The Indian sitar player that taught George Harrison.
9Dvp TIL a nearly 2,000 year old loaf of bread was found during excavations in Herculaneum, and the recipe has been recreated by The British Museum.
e0K1J TIL about the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1956 China, in which Mao Zedong allowed citizens to speak out their opinions on the Communist regime freely before ending the campaign within a year and imprisoning those who spoke critically of the regime