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TIL the fountain pen ink company Noodler's has an ink commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre - It's Blood Red

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WkaR4 TIL that in 1935, a Congressman proposed an amendment that any declaration of war would need a national referendum. He said that "If the United States had such an anti-war provision in its Constitution, other countries would follow our example, and I believe wars would be brought to an end"
a8r1b TIL a Japanese 21 yr old man massacred almost half of the people in his village after getting rejected by several girls
NXkbE TIL in Dante's divine comedy there's a special place reserved for people who stayed neutral, didn't commit to either good or evil and simply lived their obscure lives, avoiding to pick a side on moral issues. They get punished but not in hell, as even the demons want nothing to do with them
5VXxB TIL of UK farmer Tony Martin, whose house had been broken into so many times, that he was able to predict when the burglars would strike next, and shot and killed one.
QNjvE TIL today I learned about Horses & The Mechanized Myth of the Eastern Front