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TIL that Stalin and Lenin robbed a bank together in 1907, killing 40 and injuring more.

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yXKJ TIL Stanley Kubrick fooled the MPAA into thinking that the blood flowing out of the elevator in The Shining was just “rusty water”
jBME TIL Researchers found that bees which had been given a dose of cocaine threw themselves into unusually energetic dance routines, felt compelled to “talk” to their nest mates - and even went “cold turkey” when the drugs ran out.
rNplW TIL tuberculosis reached the Americas before European contact, likely carried by seals and sea lions who acquired it from livestock on African beaches
69gYm TIL in an actual case of dying of laughter, 56-year-old Danish audiologist named Ole Bentzen laughed himself to death watching A Fish Called Wanda
X077j TIL about the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a conspiracy that suggests that the AD dating system was fabricated to place Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII at 1000 AD. According to this, the years AD 614 - 911 (the early Middle Ages) never happened.