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TIL You are twice as likely to die from a gender reveal party than a shark attack

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v1x9r TIL When Time magazine named China's Deng Xiaoping as 1985 Man of the Year, it prompted Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-Kuo to quicken the pace of Taiwan's democratization. Deng invited Chiang to meet with him but he declined, on the grounds that he did not believe in the Communist Party of China
1ynr TIL that actor Alan Rickman, who portrayed Snape in the Harry Potter films, knew the full story of the character from the very beginning. When he was asked by directors why he delivered lines certain ways he would say that he “knew something they didn’t.”
oBYmr TIL that a heavily-promoted 1979 American sitcom about black congressman did not air due to opposition from the Black Congressional Caucus, who feared that airing "Mr. Dugan" would be "disastrous, showing a (black) congressman who was a silly, incompetent man ruled by his staff"
nv7o TIL that the French held out at Fort Vaux against crushing German attacks for 3 days with no water. The commander sent requests for aid, the last one saying “This is my last pigeon”. The pigeon was awarded France’s highest military honour.
7d7X TIL Abraham Lincoln never joined any church, and some of his closest friends rejected the idea that he was a believing Christian