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TIL Top 10 populated countries of the world [OC]

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jV8v TIL that Soviet Russia had a central Department of Jokes that stand-ups would have to submit a list of jokes to every year and then once approved, they couldn’t deviate from that script for the entire year.
QeAE TIL that Sigmund Freud’s nephew exploited women’s aspirations for a better life by encouraging them to smoke, thus fighting their ‘oppression’
jlkv TIL the British submarine HMS Artful can stay submerged for 25 years without having to surface for air
GAeQj TIL Joseph Goebbels (Nazi minister of Propaganda) funded the development of a low-cost Radio ("Volksempfänger", the “people’s receiver”) which delivered State-Run "news" directly into the homes of German citizens. It was a "vital element of success" in the spreading Nazi ideology.
VMRKm TIL on august 10, 2018, an airplane was stolen from Sea–Tac Airport in Washington by 29-y-old Richard Russell, a ground service agent with no piloting experience. He flew around for 1h15min, kept radio contact, did a succesfull barrel roll, then crashed on an island purposely, killing only himself