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TIL More men are raped in America than women

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QNM6k TIL that Charlie Chaplin's speech in The Great Dictator was initially criticized as too political, and he was later investigated by J Edgar Hoover for his political leanings.
GAV6g TIL that the famed designer Yves Saint Laurent was actually born and raised in the city of Oran, Algeria when it still a French colony. His childhood home was bought by a local man and is now a museum dedicated to his sketches and early life
VLLp TIL of Disco Sally, a geriatric widowed grandmother who became a fixture of NYC’s legendary Studio 54.
XEPK6 TIL: the US Government poisoned alcohol during prohibition killing an estimated 10,000 people.
awxwy TIL that the Nazi SS organization included volunteers from many ethnicity from Albania, Hungary, India, Sweden, the UK, etc.