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TIL the welfare state was originally a right-wing invention by arch-conservative Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck hated socialism, but he wasn’t an ideologue. He figured out that if you don’t provide a minimum safety net to workers, they will be persuaded by the socialists.

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4BLJ TIL that During a 2011 Comic-Con, when asked about Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, Mark Hamill claims it was the most original performance he has ever seen since Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar-winning portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
NXYmJ TIL that the dress Marilyn Monroe wore to celebrate JFK's birthday was irreparably damaged after Kim Kardashian wore it in 2022, even though Kardashian lost 16 pounds in 3 weeks to fit into it.
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oDMY TIL that Fidel Castro predicted correctly 43 years ago, that the USA will talk to Cuba again when they “have a black president and the world has a latin american pope”.