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TIL Benjamin Franklin did heroin

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Aer4 TIL that Leon Trotsky wrote a book called “The Revolution Betrayed” where he accurately predicted the deterioration of communism, Stalin’s totalitarianism, and the eventual fall of the Soviet Union
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wLdGP TIL “Atheistic Satanists” have an interesting take on religion with their belief that “God is not an external entity, but rather something that each person creates as a projection of their own personality—a benevolent and stabilizing force in their life.”