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01. During the 2014 Thai coup d'etat, sandwiches were used as an anti-coup symbol, and a group of students were charged with “possessing sandwiches with ill intent.” #Coup #Revolution #Dictators #History #Government #Thailand

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01. Lenin’s dead body is bathed and dressed in new clothes every year. His tomb is in the center of Moscow open to the public, despite his death wish to be buried next to his wife. #death #didyouknow #humanbody #popular #famous #celebrity #history

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01. Scotland banned Christmas for nearly 400 years. It didn’t become a public holiday until 1958. #russia #danish #prussia #christmas #festival #didyouknow #interesting #fascinating #bans

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01. Duane Webber is an interesting part of the whole DB Cooper case. On his deathbed, he confessed to his wife “I am Dan Cooper.” The media reported his name as DB Cooper mistakenly. The hijacker, on the note he passed to the stewardess, identified himself as Dan Cooper. #death #mystery #deathbed #died #shocking #wtf #didyouknow #popular #famous

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01. Serial killer Harvey Glatman used to present himself as a photographer for pulp fiction magazines to find his victims and take photos of them tied before they even knew they were kidnapped. #wtf #death #died #crime #criminal #darkworld

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01. During the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, at least 300 people lost their lives because the doors opened inwards. This prompted the regulation that all doors in a public building must open outwards. #tragedy #disaster #history #worst #didyouknow #shocking #nature

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01. Actress Salma Hayek breastfed another woman's baby during a goodwill trip to Sierra Leone in an attempt to diminish the stigma placed on women for breastfeeding. #women #female #woman #popular #famous #celebrity #stigma #southkorean #moms #mothers #wtf #shocking #didyouknow

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01. British colonizers infected Tasmanian Aboriginal women with venereal diseases that left a significant percentage of the population unable to reproduce. This was one of several factors leading to the complete eradication of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. #history #ancient #classic #britishempire #british #english #empire

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01. In 2002, a 7-year-old Philadelphia girl named Erica Pratt was abducted and locked in a basement. She managed to escape from her kidnappers in less than 24 hours by gnawing through the duct tape binding her hands and feet, kicking out a panel on the basement door, punching out a window, and then screaming for help. #shocking #crimes #wtf #horror #criminals #stole #evil General Knowledge Facts, Punch Out, Better Life Quotes, 7 Year Olds, Guy Names, Duct Tape, Pratt

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01. In 2002, a 7-year-old Philadelphia girl named Erica Pratt was abducted and locked in a basement. She managed to escape from her kidnappers in less than 24 hours by gnawing through the duct tape binding her hands and feet, kicking out a panel on the basement door, punching out a window, and then screaming for help. #shocking #crimes #wtf #horror #criminals #stole #evil

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01. In 1976, Bob Marley planned a non-political free concert 'Smile Jamaica' which led to an assassination attempt. Bob would survive and perform the 90-minute set, still healing from the gunshot wound. #death #crime #wtf #shocking #horror #popular #famous #celebrity

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01. Beyonce employs a "visual director" who records her for up to 16 hours a day and has done so almost every day since 2005. She stores this footage in a temperature-controlled room she calls her "crazy archive," extensively cataloging her public and private life. #famous #popular #celebrity #disturbing #shocking #wtf #horror #scandal #beyonce

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01. Project 1794 was a top-secret program with the USAF working with a Canadian aeronautics company to build a supersonic flying saucer that would be able to wage psychological war on the Soviet Union. The project was scrapped when they figured out that not only would it be too expensive to build enormous flying discs. #science #knowledge #education #secret #mystery #usa #america #unitedstates #ufo

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01. In November 2000, Japan passed its first anti-stalking law after a 21-year-old student was murdered by her stalker the previous year. She had been turned away multiple times by the police who denied and falsely portrayed her as a promiscuous flirt on the media. Shiori Ino was murdered following months of stalking. #shocking #crime #horror #evil #murder #death #died #criminal #women #female #woman

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01. It took at least 20,000 people 22 years to build the Taj Mahal. The artisans who worked on the Taj are reputed to have had their hands cut off after the building was completed to prevent them from building a comparable structure. #monument #landmark #tajmahal #architecture #famous #popular #travel #living #world #adventure #hidden #secret #mystery

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01. If Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got stuck on the moon, the official policy was to cut communication and let them suffocate in silence. Nixon even had a speech prepared in case this happened. #space #science #knowledge #education #wtf #japanese #animal #truth

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