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TIL that Indian voters get right to reject all election candidates. The Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission to provide a button on the voting machine which would give voters the option to choose "none of the above".

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MelJW TIL that José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman was stranded at sea between 2012 and 2014. He survived mainly on a diet of raw fish, turtles, small birds, sharks and rainwater.
l7lMA TIL a grieving mother from India had twins through surrogacy using her dead son's semen.
Yd4P TIL all the historical information on Atlantis comes from one source: Plato, who probably invented the whole thing to show Athens was better than even this fabled civilization.
EgQPW TIL that in 1941, American vessels of the Atlantic fleet fired hundreds of rounds on a light in the sky believing it to be a Japanese aircraft. It turned out to be the planet Venus.
BrBJb TIL: Canada once purchased some Russian MIG 21 Fighters.