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TIL that "The Wizard of Oz" is an allegory for late 19th century populism

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D1EZV TIL Two homosexual lovers, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, assassinated the king of Athens, Hipparchus, and triggered events that would usher in democracy. They became known as the Tyrannicides, the preeminent symbol of democracy to ancient Athenians.
4kBZJ TIL Chinese researchers developed a face-identification model to tell giant pandas apart
w0R1 TIL That E.T. The Extra Terrestrial is from the Asogian species in the Star Wars Universe.
Oo1G7 TIL about Joe Kieyoomia, an American POW who survived the Bataan Death March, three years of brutal torture in a concentration camp, and the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
9w5G6 TIL A Nashville music promoter tried to open a for-profit museum about the JFK assassination at the Dallas Texas School Book Depository building in the 1970s. Floors of the building stayed empty until the Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 in response to the many visitors who visit Dealey Plaza