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TIL the US economy does better under a Democratic president.

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R5m7 TIL that during filming of Schindler’s List, a survivor of the concentration camp in Płaszów Poland met actor Ralph Fiennes, who played Nazi captain Amon Goeth; she began to shake uncontrollably at the sight of him because he was so convincing; Goeth was responsible for tens of thousands of deaths
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