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TIL There´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution

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OoOea TIL Alexander Hamilton didn’t believe in democracy, which he labeled an American “disease.” He fought—with military force—any model of organizing the American political economy that might promote egalitarian politics. He was an authoritarian, and proud of it.
685J TIL That according to Vin Diesel, the voice of Groot in the movie the Guardians of the Galaxy, he recorded Groot’s iconic line, “I am Groot,” over 1,000 times.
BOEL TIL in a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
LkkKP It depends on how they're deployed.
VBw84 TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the city of Verdun’s defence system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 100,000 casualties to retake it.