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TIL that Stalin was named Time's Person of the Year twice

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8a5G4 TIL Enlightenment skeptic philosopher David Hume's deathbed became a matter of public interest - to see if he was afraid or would recant. Multiple accounts confirm he was cheerful and did not recant.
JYmlv TIL Murray Rothbard believed that parental rights to children should be traded as consumer goods, suggesting the creation of a "flourishing free market in children".
78aDM TIL President John Adams son Charles died of alcoholism at 30 years old while he was president
dD7GZ TIL that Giacomo Puccini's wife, Elvira, spiked his coffee with bromide to suppress his sexual urges when attractive women came to dinner. It doesn't seem to have worked as he had numerous affairs.
PPvJ TIL Thomas Midgley, Jr. a chemists and mechanical engineer, “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history.” and unintentionally killed himself.