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TIL: 60 million people were killed in WWII, of which 6 million were Jews

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yVd8M TIL that in 1934 a board game called Toward Soviet America was the opposite of Monopoly. The goal was to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. The game did not catch on.
XEOBQ TIL Saddam Hussein's son owned an actual iron maiden and used it against people he didn't like.
e0l6J TIL in 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World, May Myat Noe was stripped of her crown for refusing to get breast implants. Officials cites her “ungrateful attitude …. ” as their reasoning. That “ungrateful attitude” refers to the 16-year-old’s decision not to get breast implants.
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E1abW TIL that the Soviet Union loved Bollywood films. The values of Indian society and the USSR were very similar and the socialist country enjoyed the common rags to riches narrative. In fact, the highest grossing film of the Soviet Era was a 1982 Bollywood film called Disco Dancer.