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TIL of a comic series in which Superman was raised in the Soviet Union and was the champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.

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9YVR6 TIL Al Capone's oldest brother, upon his fleeing New York after a fight in which he defended his younger brother Al, changed his name, served in WWI and later became a Prohibition officer who only learned of his brother's exploits by reading the newspaper.
yQGE8 [TIL] the song Macarena by Los Del Rio is about a woman named Macarena who cheats on her boyfriend with TWO of his friends while he's away in the Army.
xVPKg TIL Frank Sinatra's classic song My Way has been blamed for several karaoke-related murders in the Philippines. Dubbed "My Way killings", the murders have led many karaoke bars to ban the song.
D1QLv TIL that in 1818, treadmills were originally created to punish English prisoners.
8alGG TIL of Zhang Jing­chuan, a Chinese mountaineer who survived a taliban execution at a 13,000-foot base camp. He knocked an attacker, hid barefoot in his underwear for an hour in a ravine, snuck back in a tent to get a jacket and a satellite phone, hiked to safety and called the local emergency line