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TIL German secondary education streams kids into 5 different types of schools

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oBPO8 TIL when Stalin got his first position as Secretary of the Communist Party, Leon Trotsky mocked his secretarial and low duties by nicknaming him "Comrade Index Card". Stalin eventually rose in ranks to rule the USSR, and eventually exiled Trotsky from the entire country.
B91W TIL The Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after one of them slept with another man
EMnX TIL the word “feminism” was created and first used by … a man. Charles Fourier translated the word into English from French in the 1800s to refer to women’s “emancipation”.
y7rV TIL of John Michell, a scientist of the 1700s, described as being “so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later.” -the first person to propose the existence of black holes and much more.
a1GL TIL of Carlos Hathcock. A Marine sniper in Vietnam who crawled over 1500 yards to kill a high-ranking NVA officer. It took 4 days to complete because he could move only inches. He also said that he was almost stepped on while camouflaged in a meadow. As well as almost bitten by a Bamboo Viper.