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A poor old lady was forced to sell her valuables to avoid eviction.

by cringeyjokesman January 27, 2022, 3:35 pm

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TIL that the small “climbing boys” who were forced up chimneys to clean them sometimes had fires lit underneath them deliberately to encourage them to climb if they were reluctant, and would sometimes get caught in the flames and burn to death

by whatilearned January 27, 2022, 2:02 pm

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10 million dollars but you are forced to quarantine for the rest of 2022. Would you do it? Why or why not?

by QuestionGuy January 23, 2022, 2:20 am

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TIL Washington State’s largest food bank, Northwest Harvest, was forced to relocate after the landowner, Trinity Parish Church, planned to demolish the site and build a 30-story tower to fund church renovations.

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 2:38 pm

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TIL: In 1972 the death of Harry Truman forced the closure of all federal offices as part of a national day of mourning. Vietnam draftees scheduled to be inducted on this date had their induction delayed until 1973. In 1973 the draft was not restarted, preventing this group from ever being inducted.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 4:48 pm

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TIL to obtain South Korea’s support for making Hashima Island a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Japan acknowledged it had brought Koreans to work on the island against their will and under harsh conditions. Immediately after the site was approved, Japan backtracked and denied forced labor had occurred.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 8:56 am

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TIL about The Long Walk in 1864: a ~300 mile forced winter march to Fort Sumner, a 40 square mile reservation. ~8,500 Navajo displaced. 200+ deaths. After 4 years of persecution a treaty was signed allowing them return ‘home.’ The Navajo Nation is now the largest tribe in the US.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 4:03 am

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Would you watch a show in which a Billionaire CEO is forced to live on his or her lowest-paid employee’s wage for a month, with no other resources beyond the employee’s? What do you think would happen if this happened?

by QuestionGuy January 18, 2022, 9:32 pm

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AITA for telling my black friend that his existence is an example of forced diversity?

by CopyPastaArchive January 18, 2022, 12:35 pm

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TIL about Giorgio Marincola, an Anti-Nazi Italian-Somali fighter. He was captured by the SS, who forced him to give a propaganda radio broadcast but instead said, “homeland means freedom and justice for the peoples of the world. This is why I fight the oppressors.” He died shortly after that.

by whatilearned January 14, 2022, 2:04 am

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Has Covid-19 forced you to wear glasses and a mask at the same time?

by cringeyjokesman January 12, 2022, 5:25 pm

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TIL that in 1945, General George S Patton, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany, forced 1,000 local citizens to tour the camp to witness firsthand the atrocities that had taken place within.

by whatilearned January 11, 2022, 5:17 am

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