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TIL Nikita Khrushchev made a speech denouncing Stalin that was so shocking it caused heart attacks for some in attendance.

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ADDD7 TIL that the Temple of Artemis was burned by a man named Herostratus who sought to live in infamy. Despite his name becoming illegal to say, to deny him that infamy, it eventually become a metonym “Herostratic fame” meaning someone who commits an act to gain notoriety and infamy.
4XoZN TIL Mansa Musa is the richest person that has ever lived. Simply valued as "Richer than anyone could describe" his sheer wealth dwarfs the $4.6 trillion of Augustus Caesar and the paltry $150 billion amassed by Jeff Bezos and the $100 billion scraped together by Bill Gates.
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rR7k1 TIL comedian Joey Diaz kidnapped a man and stole 2 kilos of cocaine from him in 1987. He was arrested for it and sentenced to prison but in 2019 that man went to a Joey Diaz show after they corresponded for 5 years and Diaz apologized for his actions.