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TIL the ancient Greeks had a democratic process to nominate and vote to send any citizen away for 10 years. Like the opposite of an election.

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ANLlx TIL that Dutch movie director Theo van Gogh’s last movie was about the assassination of a famous Dutch politician. He would eventually be assassinated himself.
OoOpY TIL the U.S. Postal Service is required by law to fly the POW-MIA flag anytime they fly the American Flag.
jN18Q TIL tomatoes were put “on trial” on June 28, 1820 in Salem, New Jersey. In front of a courthouse, Robert Johnson ate a horde of tomatoes in order to prove they weren’t poisonous. The crowd waited for him to die. He didn’t.
1aJ48 TIL of King Mithridates of Pontus, who ingested increasing amounts of various poisons in order to prevent his assasination by poisoning. When surrounded by enemy soldiers, he tried to commit suicide by poisoning himself with all of the poisons he had on hand but failed because he was immune.
EYJo TIL During the initial assault on Stalingrad, German forces were shocked to find they were fighting mostly women from an anti-aircraft regiment, who used their anti-aircraft guns to destroy German Panzers.