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TIL: about Georgia Tan, the director of the Children’s Home Society, who became wealthy by kidnapping over 5,000 children and selling them for a steep profit. 500 children died under her care in Memphis, TN

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Wg5Y TIL a Russian nuclear submarine had its electricity cut by the electricity company at a naval base due to unpaid bills. The submarine’s cooling system stopped working and the reactor came close to meltdown
QJdaE TIL Timothy McVeigh was a witness to the Waco massacre in 1993. Two years later, on the second anniversary of the last day of the Waco siege, McVeigh set off a bomb outside of a government building in Oklahoma, as an act against what he saw as a tyrannical government.
rRoJo TIL Charlie Day was offered a part on the network show "Life on a Stick." At the same time, his friends began filming their own show with no money. Day turned down “Life on a Stick,” which lasted one season, while "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" became one of the longest running comedies ever.
oLxW TIL Paraguay’s first dictator, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, forbade colonial citizens from marrying one another and allowed them to marry only blacks, mulattoes or natives, in order to break the power of colonial-era elites and to create a mixed-race or mestizo society.
7aar TIL that on the island of Chios, Greece, every Easter is celebrated with a rocket war between two churches on Saturday night. The objective is to ring the other church’s bell.