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TIL that 1984 by George Orwell was banned in the USSR for being Anti-Communist, but also banned in the USA for being Pro-Communist.

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yQm8v TIL that the movie What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004) was produced by Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. Ramtha is an alleged entity channelled by J.Z. Knight said to be over 35,000 years old and from Atlantis and Lemuria, where he was in charge of an army of over a million people.
78Dp TIL There have been no fatalities in the United States, due to a major airline crash, since November of 2001.
5Y4g9 TIL: on September 2, 1945, Vietnam's independence was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh. His first words were "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
1aZR4 TIL that during the grand opening of the great pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487 the Aztecs sacrificed 84,000 people in four days.
r1DW TIL if you walk home from a bar, you are 8 times more likely to die than if you drove