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TIL the red phone, the hotline between USA and Russia has never been a phone and was never red

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Yp9v7 TIL : Another factor for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest was the death of Chinese reformist Hu Yaobang and rapid market economic reform. and at their last stand, the protester sings the international socialist anthem to protest the Chinese leadership for betraying their original ideas.
KG7Q TIL a man who entertained at restaurants played a stolen Stradivarius violin for over 50 years before confessing its true value to his wife on his deathbed
m1N6Y TIL that on April 23 1953 Dwight D Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 which banned homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. An estimated 5000-10,000 people lost their jobs because of this policy, now known as the "lavender scare".
nVK9 TIL that the RIAA tried to sue LimeWire for $72 trillion in damages – an amount of money larger than the entire planet’s GDP.
nDbG TIL that Olivia de Havilland (Gone With the Wind) and Kirk Douglas (Spartacus), both age 99, are the last two surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age