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TIL Lenin spoke at Laura (daughter of Karl) Marx’s funeral

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K5lB TIL of the Laha Massacre where Japanese forces picked 300 Australian and Dutch POWs at random in February 1942 and executed them in revenge for the sinking of a Japanese ship. Surviving crew members of the sunken ship took part in the killings.
kOQ4d TIL in mid 18th century Gross National Income per capita (PPP) of countries that today make up third world (Asia, Africa, Latin America) was more than first world (Western Europe, Northern America, Japan, Singapore and South Korea)
oBZoL TIL that an art collector once kept a statue of Buddha in his home unaware that inside was a 1,000-year-old mummified monk.
v4n7 TIL French’s American Mustard is British Owned
9wZdM Today I learned that Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, was married first to Michael Jackson and then to Nicolas Cage.