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TIL Wendy Williams is NOT the lead singer of the Plasmatics

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wjvE TIL The USSR named one of its last policies (which allowed the nations of the Eastern Bloc to determine their own internal affairs) the ‘Sinatra Doctrine’ - a reference to the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” as the Soviet Union was effectively allowing its satellite states to go their 'own way’.
Bg6XW TIL the first woman to run for President was Victoria Woodhull in 1872
ydJX TIL that during the Warsaw Pact’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Czech citizens removed or defaced street signs except for those giving the direction back to Moscow.
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Wx7o TIL a French man on trial for witchcraft in the 1500’s decided to troll his accusers before being sentenced to death and declared that not only was he indeed a sorcerer, but there were more than 300,000 others in France alone, setting off mass hysteria across the country