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TIL Mao Zedong killed 4.5x more people than Hitler did

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xV8Wk TIL After the scene where Margot Robbie has sex with Leonardo DiCaprio on a pile of money in 'Wolf of Wall Street', Robbie ended the scene with her back covered in paper cuts from the fake money they used
RpBl TIL New York City landmarks like Rockefeller Plaza shut out the public for 1 day each year so that they don’t risk losing property rights to “adverse possession” (squatter’s rights)
6LAY TIL in 2006 a judge in Texas sentenced a 14-year-old black girl who was a first time offender to prison for 7 years for shoving a hall monitor, 3 months earlier that same judge sentenced a 14-year-old white girl,convicted of arson for burning down her family’s house, to probation.
yWxw TIL the West African Ebola outbreak is linked to people eating bats.
9YRxM TIL every morning, English submarines equipped with nuclear warheads emerge and tune in to BBC Radio 4 "Today" show. If it fails to transmit, they assume UK had been destroyed.