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TIL that about 70-85 million people died in the world war 2

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rKe4 TIL that in Georgia (the country) there are mountain passes that have been used by invading armies so many times that the farm houses have fortified towers.
VMRkD TIL: Having standard showtimes for films was not common until 1960. Previously most films would just play on a loop, and people could enter at any time. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho required that people watch from the beginning to the end and made showtimes more standard.
oRrg8 TIL under the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 a man was fined $100 for wishing the canon firing a salute would “hit [President John] Adams in the ass.”
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