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TIL japanese students tend to bring along a KitKat to an exam as it's pronounced Kitto Katsu in Japanese which means certainly win

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dGN8 TIL that in 1979, an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a dying island near his home. Since then, Jadav’s island has blossomed into Molai Forest, an oasis bigger than Central Park with thousands of plants and animals
ev4J TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, during the detonation of the trinty bomb (the first atom bomb), recalled that besides initial laughs and cries, most scientists were silent. Oppenheimer later recalled thinking of a line from Hindu scripture that read, “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
ADBjd TIL "The Ganges is the final resting place for about forty thousand cremated bodies every year. So, people who swim in Ganges river are like swimming in a sort of sludge made partially out of dead people."
N7lV1 TIL in 2014 Guardian made a typo in the title of an article about ranking TV cricket commentators, and had it titled "Wanking the TV commentators".
9YNgG TIL that famous writer Art Buchwald wanted to join the United States Marine Corps during World War II but was too young to join without parental or legal guardian consent, so he bribed a drunk with half a pint of whiskey to sign as his legal guardian