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TIL The Communist Party is the second largest political party in the Russian Federation

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Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
ADd7o TIL there is a confederate Mount Rushmore in Georgia
BrL1e TIL that for the signing of the 1940 armistice between Germany and France, Hitler had the railcar that was used at the end of WWI placed in the exact same spot as the 1918 armistice and afterwards had the site destroyed.
e0O0b TIL the actor who played Barney from 1991 - 2001 became a "tantric sex guru"; David Joyner charges $350 per 4-hr session which involves sexual intercourse with the client. Joyner said: "The energy I brought up [while] in the costume is based on the foundation of tantra, which is love."
WkN5d TIL about Zofia Rydet, a Polish photographer who, at age 67, decided to try to shoot the interior of every home in Poland. Over the final 19 years of her life, she shot 20,000 images. She said, "The simplest, most ordinary documentary picture becomes a great truth about human fate."