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TIL Amazon India deliver Cow Dung via their site. This is for Hindu Cow Dung Burning Rituals

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6MpY TIL Contrary to popular belief, Marilyn Munroe was nowhere near a ‘plus’ size 12 - 16, she was closer to a US size 0 / UK size 8
9wY5Q TIL in the US, courts ruled that under US Labor Law, disruption of property rights was "necessary in order to safeguard the right to collective bargaining." The right to a labor union and workers rights had some prerogative over certain aspects of property rights in relation to employer's property.
gMJ58 TIL a 25-barrel gun was used in an assassination attempt on the King of France in 1835. It fired over 400 projectiles at once and killed 18 people. The assassin was badly injured by exploding barrels, and tracked down by the trail of blood.
6XwX TIL that the people of an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe only have two toes. a.k.a the ostrich people
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