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TIL Ed Gale (actor for horror icon Chucky) had been under investigation for sexting minors up until his death.

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eppyb TIL of the "Kettenkrad", a motorcycle-tank used by the nazis in WW2
AN0Jl TIL that the founder of the CCP believed in free democracy and free press.
1aj6r TIL in 2018 a 47 year old man, wielding a hammer, tried to steal one of the four remaining copies of England's Magna Carta - a document drafted in 1215 that inspired the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
19EP TIL 12-year-old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to FDR on this exact day 76 years ago, asking him for $10 dollars
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