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TIL that DaBaby has more Billboard Hot 100 hits than Queen and David Bowie combined

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BrPlL TIL of Albert Pierrepoint, England's lead hangman from the 1940's-1950's. He executed many Nazi's and other high profile murderers. He owned a pub and usually was able to carry out an execution and still make it back to open his bar on time. He once had to hang one of his regular pub customers.
xV1Bo TIL Mao Zedong started a program to encourage people to criticize the government, and then punished those that did, even putting some into labor camps.
xV8Ew TIL about Kim Bok-Dong and what a "comfort woman" was. During WWII, at 14 years old, Kim Bok-Dong was taken to Japan where she joined other young women who were forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. The Japanese government later made them work as nurses to try to hide what had happened
69LnZ TIL that Welsh boxer Tommy Farr, challenged Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship and gave Louis such hell, that the American home crowd booed when Louis was given the win.
mx6bY TIL that two movies came out in the middle of 1990 based on the life of Henry Hill. “My Blue Heaven” was written by Nora Ephron. “Goodfellas” was written by Nicholas Pileggi. Ephron and Pileggi were married at the time.