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TIL of Mikhail Kalinin, the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1946. His title was just nominal though, and he held little influence. So little that Kalinin was powerless to do anything when his wife, Ekaterina, was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for criticizing Joseph Stalin.

by whatilearned November 19, 2021, 6:11 pm

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TIL that Alexander Solzhenitsyn composed his 12,000-line-long poem Prussian Nights while imprisoned in a GULAG camp, writing down each day a few lines on a bar of soap

by whatilearned October 24, 2021, 5:01 pm

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TIL A man was wrongfully imprisoned for 8 years, He read up on the law trying to prove his own innocence now he’s a defense lawyer

by whatilearned October 23, 2021, 2:40 am

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TIL of Marozia (c. 890 – 937), who (like her mother Theodora) ruled Rome through lover Pope Sergius III; husbands Alberic I and Guy of Tuscany; Popes Leo VI and Stephen VII; and bastard son Pope John XI. Son Alberic II imprisoned her. Historians called it a pornocracy. 6 popes were her descendants.

by whatilearned September 29, 2021, 1:29 am

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TIL that horror author HP Lovecraft and legendary escape artist Harry Houdini collaborated to write a story in 1924, called Imprisoned with the Pharaohs. This led Lovecraft further ghost-writing more work for Houdini.

by whatilearned September 11, 2021, 10:45 pm

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TIL that Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had his first wife (married 1914) imprisoned and their son, Benito Albino Mussolini, forcibly interned in an asylum in Mombello, Province of Milan, where he was murdered on 26 August 1942 after repeated coma-inducing injections, at 26.

by whatilearned August 29, 2021, 3:58 pm

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TIL that female journalist Gao Yu was imprisoned for 5 years by the Communist Party of China for leaking “Document No. 9” which bans university professors from teaching democratic ideals such as Basic Human Rights. Failure to comply results in suppression, blacklisting, and imprisonment.

by whatilearned August 28, 2021, 6:26 am

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TIL of an ill fated Japanese Cargo ship, who’s crew endured winter storms, starvation, celebrity status in Hawaii, disease, etc, only to be imprisoned once home, as it was illegal to leave Japan in the first place.

by whatilearned August 5, 2021, 3:54 pm

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Imprisoned Working as an Ice-Cream Man (Petit-Nicholas Saved my Life)

by CopyPastaArchive July 21, 2021, 12:13 pm

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TIL that the parents of rock musician Geddy Lee (of the band Rush) were Holocaust survivors who had been imprisoned at both Auschwitz and Dachau and had met one another in the Starachowice camp.

by whatilearned June 25, 2021, 7:47 am

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TIL about William Adams, a shipwrecked 17th century English captain who, while initially imprisoned, was promoted to Samurai and gifted a fief in Japan. He remained advisor to the Japanese emperor until his death 20 years later.

by whatilearned June 15, 2021, 2:05 pm

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TIL it is illegal in Louisiana to steal someone else’s alligator or any part of it, whether it is alive or dead. If a person steals an alligator worth $1500 or more, he can be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than 10 years, or he can be fined not more than $3000, or both.

by whatilearned June 15, 2021, 3:04 am

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