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TIL the president of India is female.

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Z8L6v TIL Dave Bickler, original lead singer of the band Survivor, spent his later career focusing on voice over and vocal work in advertisements, notably Bud Light's Real Men of Genius commercial series.
0r0R TIL that the Taung Child - the first Australopithecus fossil ever discovered - was originally killed by a bird of prey after having its eyes gouged out ~2.8 million years ago
nv6B TIL that Kurt Godel (considered to be one of the most significant logicians in human history) discovered an inconsistency in the U.S. Constitution, one that would allow the U.S. to become a dictatorship
BrpaD TIL that Basil Zaharoff sold the Greek government a submarine, then told the Turkish government that the Greeks had a submarine, Turkey then bought 2 submarines. He then told the same to the Russian government who later bought 2 submarines as well. None of the submarines worked.