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TIL Gandhi received a British medal for helping to suppress black South Africans, said that Hitler was “not a bad man”, and disallowed his wife from taking penicillin for pneumonia, from which she then died (he was against “alien medicine”). Later, he “allowed doctors to save his life with quinine”.

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BrXbd TIL of Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, a Dutch woman who saved 10,000 Jewish children by charming and bribing Dutch train workers and German officers including a young Adolf Eichmann. Research suggests she saved more Jewish lives than all but Raoul Wallenberg.
lnJa TIL eating raw potatoes can make you sick to your stomach due to indigestibility, toxins, and bacteria.
x60mo TIL: For All Moonkind is a nonprofit working with the UN to preserve human heritage in space to protect damage to historical sites by tourists or errant explorers. It consists of Space Lawyers, policymakers, and space archeologists. It receives bipartisan support in the US.
kJdOg TIL that the Persian king Fath-Ali Shah Qajar added "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica" to his royal title
wAm7 TIL that in the early 20th century, thousands of people would spend their vacations in a town where the main attraction was a natural source of water that acted as a laxative.