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TIL India still bans gay sex.

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awb1J TIL Stalin’s head of Poisons’ Laboratory, who spent years trying to find an undetectable poison leading to death by cardiac failure, died himself of a cardiac failure after reminding Krushchev how they took part together to a political assassination
OGQo7 TIL that Italy switched from the Axis powers to the Allied powers on October 13, 1943, during the height of WW2
lRZ5 TIL that India has a problem with millions shitting in public.
6lLw TIL CIA created a gun that could shoot darts that caused heart attack. Upon penetration of skin the dart left just a tiny red dot. The poison itself worked rapidly and denatured quickly afterwards. It was revealed in 1975 in a Congressional testimony.
XEg7P TIL of Didier Delsalle who is the only person to have landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest.