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TIL there are 352 million discovered knots

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KYo9 TIL Leo Tolstoy wrote a book in 1908 called “Letter to a Hindu” in which he argued that the only way for India to gain independence from Britain was through non-violent resistance. Gandhi read this book and others by Tolstoy. They struck up a correspondence and the course of history was changed.
5VvM8 TIL that the 2002 movie The Ring wasn't the first in the franchise. The 1998 Japanese film Ring (known as "Ringu" in the US) actually was the original.
b9axE TIL of Rondo Hatton, voted 'Most Handsome' in high school but who later developed acromegaly, a disease that grotesquely altered his facial features. Falling into depression, he was spotted by a Hollywood director and offered a film role, which Hatton then parlayed into a long career in horror films
xVWJb TIL that there is a restaurant in Tokyo called “The Restaurant of Order Mistakes” that hires waiters with dementia and Alzheimer’s. They may or may not get your order right.
9Par TIL that caterpillars literally melt down into a sac of fluid cells, which are used to create the entire body from scratch, forming a butterfly.