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TIL Star Wars original trilogy was remastered by fans as they wanted high definition versions of the original release.

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9wKkM TIL Thomas Cromwell led the persecution of Anne Boleyn based on a prophecy of "secret treason" against Henry VIII by "children of unbelief." Anne opposed Cromwell's harder line on the church but when a priest close to her attacked Cromwell in a sermon Cromwell became convinced the prophecy was true.
6EGLY TIL 7 years after the Republic was established, Mao Zedong allowed people to express their opinions on the way the country was being run in a campaign called the Hundred Flowers Campaign. Once this happened,those who said things against the government who were then jailed or unheard of since.
yVdgl TIL that in 1962 there was a laughing epidemic in what was Tanganyika that caused 14 schools to shut down and affected over 1000 people.
dO1Z TIL: Nazis destroyed Germany’s largest institute focusing on human sexuality in 1933 that studied and advocated for Gay and Transexual rights, burning their extensive library and research as it was deemed “Un-German”.
n9Lr TIL Half of the Viking warriors were female