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TIL the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won multiple elections, forming a majority government from 2001 to 2009. Communists rarely achieve peaceful transfers of power in multiparty democracies; Moldova is the only European state to be governed by communists since the fall of the USSR.

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VGOD TIL serial killer Amelia Dyer, suspected of killing as many as 400 infants and children was hanged on this date in 1896 in London.
4XrXJ TIL Romantic painter, JMW Turner, has created at least one erotic artwork.
P1AEe TIL director Werner Herzog infrequently hosts his own film school that teaches such things as "the art of lockpicking", "The creation of your own shooting permits" and "The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully" among other things.
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