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TIL of Kremlinology. During the Cold War, so little information was available about the USSR’s government that Kremlinologists studied the order Soviet leaders appeared (or didn’t appear) during parades, and the timing and spacing between them, to see who was powerful and who had lost influence.

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PYo6g TIL Dark chocolate contains more iron per ounce than beef sirloin.
Rv7l TIL there is an American cemetary hidden in northern France that contains the “dishonored dead;” dozens of US service members executed for war crimes committed during WWII
LkZm0 TIL: during the Ramones first UK tour, Sex Pistols vocalist Johnny Rotten wanted to get backstage to meet them. When he did, he was given a beer the Ramones urinated in.
GAgaG TIL 250 miles north of San Francisco is California’s “Lost Coast”. There is almost 100 miles of mountainous, remote and nearly inaccessible coastline owned by the Federal Government.
XEwAE TIL that in 1948, one of the deadliest earthquakes of all time occurred in The Soviet Union, killing 110,000 people; two thirds of an entire cities population