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TIL Karl Marx’s son-in-law wrote a book entitled “The Right To Be Lazy”

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6EgAJ TIL The first time the Japanese public heard their emperor's voice was during the formal surrender of Japan in WW2.
N79Ge TIL about Percy Ross, who for 17 years used a syndicated column called "Thanks a Million" to share his fortune with people who wrote in with good sob stories and in 1980, he offered $50 million to Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in exchange for the U.S. hostages.
R59x9 TIL Rodin, the famed sculptor, didn’t actually sculpt in marble. He made sand models and his assistants, namely Camille Claudel, made the art we love.
enaJ TIL that the famous Vietnam execution photograph taken by Eddie Adams (a soldier pointing a pistol at what appears to be a civilian victim) is actually the execution of a murderer by a police/security officer
jNvgE TIL about "The Lion House" in Gorongosa, Mozambique. When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over. Gorongosa became a national park in 1960.