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TIL that Notch, aka Markus Persson, had his PayPal account frozen for a suspicious withdrawal or deposit when he made $750,000 from early Minecrafat sales.

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jLVv TIL in 1937 Hitler told a British official that the British should “shoot Gandhi, and if this doesn’t suffice to reduce them to submission, shoot a dozen leading members of the Congress, and if that doesn’t suffice shoot 200, and so on, as you make it clear that you mean business.”
boxQ TIL The Summerhill school is a boarding school where all classes are 100% optional. If a child wants they can just play all day every day.
p1ye TIL that Adopting is considered taboo in Korea and because of this, South Korea’s orphans are almost never adopted unless a foreigner adopts them
9Lkm TIL there is an app that blocks all mentions of the Kardashians
MA9b TIL A man in 1938 agreed to have himself monitored on a electrocardiogram as he was executed to see the effects on his heart.