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TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.

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wonVJ TIL former wrestler Mick Foley retired to Long Island, where his local deli named his favorite sandwich order after him. That sandwich is a deluxe bacon cheeseburger, with peanut butter, and two Sunnyside up eggs, on a Kaiser roll.
R7J5Q TIL American author Washington Irving lied when he said Christopher Columbus sailed the world in a bid to prove it wasn't flat. The truth is that 'Flat Earth' has not been a mainstream theory since at least 600 B.C. In the 1400s, almost everybody would have known the Earth was round.
9YwkD TIL a "handsome" gorilla named Shabani is famous in Japan for his good looks
mxW4o TIL that a group of hungry wild boars in Tuscany ate $22,000 of Cocaine to foil drug dealers
XErnX TIL that when Nicholas Colasanto ("Coach" Ernie Pantusso) died, a picture of Geronimo that he loved was moved to the wall of the set of Cheers. Ted Danson (Sam Malone) straightened that picture as the last act in the final episode.