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TIL That Russia had fair elections in 1917 and the Bolsheviks lost to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, but the Bolsheviks shortly stripped the Constituent Assembly of it's power and implemented their own one-party rule.

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4kn5o TIL that when Gallup conducted a survey in 1944 asking Americans "What do you think we should do with Japan after the war?" 13% favored "Killing off" all the Japanese, 33% thought it should be split up or destroyed while the rest favored either supervision or rehabilitation.
YpPxG TIL Minnesota Has Been Refusing to Return a Captured Confederate Flag to Virginia for More Than a Century
5Yp09 TIL people with nerve damage in their fingers don't get "prune fingers" when soaked in water. This is because wrinkling is a reflex of the autonomic nervous system which causes blood vessels under the skin to constrict. This reflex is theorized to have evolved to improve our handling of wet objects.
Jg54 TIL that at 2:58 in the Hey Jude, you can hear ‘fucking hell’ as Paul McCartney screws up on the piano. The band thought it was funny enough to leave in.
6EvrJ TIL When a woman with breast implants is cremated, the implants will melt into "goo." It drips to the bottom of the furnace and needs to be cleaned up once cooled.