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TIL that when Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov was captured in WW2, Stalin imprisoned Yakov’s wife as punishment and refused to trade him for a captured German officer, quipping ‘I will not trade a marshal for a lieutenant’.

by whatilearned June 19, 2022, 8:38 pm

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TIL China executed or imprisoned 20 CIA informants working in the country between 2010 and 2012

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 12:34 am

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TIL: In 1999, a Minnesota man was imprisoned, fined, and put on probation for involvement in smuggling counterfeit Beanies

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 4:30 pm

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TIL that during the French Revolution, Adrienne de La Fayette, the wife of Marquis de La Fayette, was imprisoned. However, before her planned execution, Elizabeth Monroe, the wife of Future President James Monroe, intervened. Not wanting to cut ties with James Monroe, France did not execute her.

by whatilearned April 11, 2022, 2:26 pm

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TIL of the Colditz Cock, a glider built by British POWs imprisoned in Colditz castle in WWII. Made mostly of stolen wood and cloth, the glider could fit two men and was constructed in an attic above the chapel. The POWs finished the glider just before being liberated, and it never flew.

by whatilearned March 9, 2022, 2:25 pm

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TIL Dennis Hastert, former Speak of the House, pled guilty to structuring felony and was imprisoned for 13 months. Hastert is the highest-ranking elected official in U.S. history to serve a prison sentence and during his sentencing hearing the judge referred to Hastert as a “serial child molester”

by whatilearned March 8, 2022, 7:30 pm

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TIL children from fatherless households are 20x more likely to show behavioral disorders, 20x more likely to be imprisoned, and 5x more likely to commit suicide

by whatilearned March 1, 2022, 1:41 am

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TIL that the founder of Renault was imprisoned for collaborating with the Nazis and died under unknown circumstances after Paris’ liberation.

by whatilearned February 15, 2022, 5:18 pm

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TIL mathematician Milutin Milanković came up with what is now known as the Milanković theory of ice ages in part thanks to having a lot of free time. At the start of WW1 he was imprisoned in Budapest with the right to work for four years.

by whatilearned February 1, 2022, 4:12 am

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TIL that following the Fall of Saigon in 1975 up to a million South Vietnamese were imprisoned in re-education camps without trials. Prison sentences averaged 3 to 10 years, and it’s estimated 1 in 3 South Vietnamese had a family member in the camp system.

by whatilearned January 29, 2022, 3:51 pm

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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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