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TIL Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

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ExZ7 TIL that in Paris in 1926 the Ukrainian Head of State was assassinated with 5 shots from a revolver in broad daylight. The policeman who witnessed the crime walked over to the gunman, saying quietly “Is that enough?”.
QA7M TIL In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said People who trusted him were “ Dumb fucks ”
JYlpm TIL that movie sets call clothespins C-47 for Tax purposes
LbR0 TIL that a solid 8 hour sleep is actually unnatural to us as a species. A 4 hour sleep, waking for 1-2 hours, followed by another 4 hour sleep is how we slept for the majority of evolution. The change to a solid 8 hour sleep was originally attributed to improvements in lighting and other things.
jNVBQ TIL, Plankton's computer wife Karen was named after Karen Hillenburg. Steven Hillenburg's wife