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TIL that Germany completed its WWI reparation repayment in 2010, 92 years after the end of the war.

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kJxG4 TIL in 2016 film composer John Williams became the first person ever to be awarded the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award that wasn't an actor or director.
QdnX TIL of the Holodomor, an attempted genocide with a death toll surpassing that of the Holocaust. Between 1932-1933 Stalin purposely starved up to 7,000,000 Ukrainians.
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