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TIL: That Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the end times started on October 1, 1914 and that Satan is controlling the world’s governments

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0wByA TIL that the US fought a culture war against sagging pants during which at least one person was jailed and numerous others were fined, suspended, and "urkeled"
jNQdj TIL that the co-owners of Macy’s, the Strauss brothers, visited Palestine in 1912. Isidor, decided to return to America after spending a week in Palestine. The other brother, Nathan, decided that there was more work to be done an stayed. Unfortunately, Isidor died traveling back on the Titanic
E0MV TIL in the early 1930s, Stalin killed about 3.3 million Soviet Ukrainians under a plan to kill peasants in order to seize their land. After starving in mass numbers as a result of Stalin’s orders, Stalin blamed Ukrainians and used this as a pretext for even harsher measures.
dXm9 TIL there exists a group of internet commentators hired by the Chinese government to make comments favoring Chinese policies.
j6ZYa TIL Dogs can see color, but only in shades of blue and yellow. Because dogs can only see two colors, they have dichromatic vision. They can also see shades of gray. Colors such as red, orange, and green are out of a dog's color spectrum, so these colors are not visible to dogs.