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TIL Stalin imprisoned 200,000 people for telling jokes against the USSR

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9YMQ TIL, Lang Hancock (Gina Rinehart’s father) suggested forcing aboriginals - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.”
dDenr TIL Jerry Zucker, director of Ghost (1990) didn't want Patrick Swayze or Whoopi Goldberg to audition, saying "over my dead body will Patrick Swayze ever play this role." Patrick ended up securing the part and helped change Jerry's mind on Whoopi Goldberg...the role she would win an academy for.
e0Ja5 TIL Roger Fisher proposed that in the event that the US President needed to activate nuclear weapons, he (the Pres) would need to get it from a volunteer which has the codes implanted near their heart.
BEdx TIL Napoleon Bonaparte won more victories than Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar… Combined
Nkwe TIL Morality predates religions and is exhibited by higher animals.