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TIL Russians do not actually use the term comrade and the term is actually translated as tovarisch and used as such

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Zaea TIL a jail in Brazil allows its inmates to pedal exercise bikes to power lights in a nearby town in exchange for reduced sentences
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A7ll TIL there was a successful peaceful revolution in Iceland from 2009-2011 where the citizens of Iceland forced their prime minister & his whole government to resign by banging pots & pans. [none of this was televised]
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xVdp5 TIL that the first female detective in the United States uncovered the 1861 Baltimore Plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln