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TIL that France was using the guillotine into the 1970s

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69E0X TIL Gustave Eiffel was sentenced to 2 years in prison and fined 20,000 Francs, due to the Panama Scandal. He was found guilty of misusing funds, as part of his involvement of the construction of the Panama Canal. He was later acquitted.
Bg08k TIL that during the Thạnh Mỹ massacre, the Viet Cong deliberately targeted and killed 74 civilians before being fought off by US Marines and South Vietnamese soldiers.
R7xA7 TIL about the giant poop monument of Ponta Grossa, Brazil
D0Zr TIL in 1962, the Department of Defense proposed staging a series of terrorist attacks in US cities in order to drum up public support for war with Cuba. It was rejected by President Kennedy.
voD7 TIL that Jerry Springer was born in a London Underground station during WW2.