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TIL that when Stalin came to visit his mom for the last time in 1935 and explained to her that he was now “something like the tsar”, she told him, “You'd have done better to become a priest.”

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9EMX TIL the man who tried to stop John Wilkes Booth from killing Lincoln, Henry Rathbone, went all “Shining” on his family and killed his wife and attempted to kill his children in a fit of rage.
MeR1W TIL that Nintendo pushed usage of the term "game console" so people would stop calling products from other manufacturers "Nintendos", otherwise they would have risked losing their trademark.
bO7Z TIL that Rajiv Surendra, the rapping mathlete from Mean Girls, is now an incredibly sought-after calligrapher