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TIL between the 1940’s and 70’s Harvard took nude photos of each entering freshman student

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jNb9v TIL, aside the Soviet Union, Vietnam was also responsible for the survival and rise of the Chinese Communist Party during Mao’s early days of formation and the Long March. Vietnam even sent one of their Communist party member who became a major general in the PLA.
jNZjj TIL that gaslighting is the act of deliberately driving someone crazy by altering the environment and denying their sense of reality
xG01 TIL of a woman, Lizzie Velasquez, who was born with a rare disease called ‘neonatal progeroid syndrome’, that people consider to be, 'The ugliest woman in the world’ and how she turned into a positive role model and motivational speaker
rRB60 TIL of Flagellant Brothers, a group of men who roamed in streets and whipped their naked bodies for atonement of their sins and called others to repent during the Black Death.
LQBbm TIL that in 1836, the Whigs wanted to force a contingent election by nominating 4 candidates for President. They failed and Van Buren got the necessary majority to win.