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TIL Beanie Babies, at the height of their popularity, accounted for 10% of eBay traffic and some collectors insured their purchases for thousands of dollars.

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e0xWb TIL about Pavlik Morozov: a Ukrainian boy who was indoctrinated by the Young Pioneers, turned his parents in to the police for hiding grain, and actively participated in their assassination. He was then killed by his grandfather for betraying his family. Pavlik was celebrated as a martyr by Soviets.
kJp04 TIL: According to the American Survey Center, the 1996, “A National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy", by the department of health worked and teenage pregnancies have declined since then. However, Gen Z and millennial romance is drastically lower than Boomers and Gen X at the same age.
D1yWv TIL of the Mt. Iimori monument, an ancient Italian column that survived Pompeii and was donated to Japan by Mussolini in 1928 to honor nineteen teenage samurai who mistakenly committed suicide on the mountain in 1868 after falsely believing their domain had lost a battle in the Japanese Revolution.
bda4 TIL: A company in Hong Kong once attempted to release a version of Tamagotchi where you would take care of gang member, instead of feeding and playing with him, you’d make him smoke, drink alcohol, and enter knife fights.
rdBd TIL Al “Scarface” Capone got his infamous scars when he told a woman “You got a nice ass” in front of her brother while working at a bar