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Today I Learned: Henry Ford's Antisemitic Views and Worker Treatment Were Controversial

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LjYV TIL About Giulio d'Este who after a failed plot against his brother, the Duke of Ferrara was imprisoned and spend 53 years in his cell,untill he was pardoned,after he got out the people of Ferrara made fun of him for the outfashioned clothes he was wearing
rRxWx TIL - While on tour in Germany in 2002 Liam Gallagher and his bodyguards were beaten up. They claimed it was the Russian Mob. It was actually a group of estate agents.
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