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TIL there was a man-made famine genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933 that was hidden from media up until the 1980s

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5YPRR TIL Victorians sent "Vinegar Valentines" which contained anti-love messages, caricatures, insulting poems and cost the recipient 1 penny to read.
j6EXa TIL: Antarctica is a desert and the largest one on Earth.
bKEQ TIL in 1973, New York Yankee pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson held a press conference to announce they had “traded lives.” This included the exchange of wives, children, and dogs.
LQQBm TIL that a lot of the rental apartments in Germany don't come with a kitchen (as opposed to just another room with four walls), and the tenant is expected to bring their own kitchen
WRx9 TIL that despite only making up .02% of the worlds population, Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes.