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78a8M TIL All of Mr Rogers' sweaters were knitted by his mom
XEQWQ TIL that Tukhachevskiy considered as the first military commander to use chemical weapons against its own people. It happened during "Tambov rebellion" when russian peasants resisted the forced confiscation of grain by Red Army.
Zp4W4 TIL about Chögyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master who slept with female students, drank heavily, and spent $40,000 a year on cocaine.
0AZ5 TIL two Israeli soldiers received prison sentences after they posted a video of soldiers doing the Harlem Shake.
LKEp TIL American murderer Richard Honeck was jailed in 1899 and not released until 1963. During his 64 years in prison, he received one letter and two visitors. “I’d have to be pretty careful if I got paroled,” he said later. “There must be an awful lot of traffic… compared with what I remember.”