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TIL Chopin's heart was pickled in cognac and only recently has his death been diagnosed as a likely complication of TB - pericarditis.

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R5LP1 TIL Mao Zedong in 1973 offered Henry Kissinger to have 10 million women to be sent to US to start bilateral trade and boost population because China had 'excess in women'.
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