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TIL That Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler in an effort to prevent WWII from escalating

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OG4RY TIL 4-yr-old Cecelia Cichan was the sole survivor of the deadliest aviation accident to have only one survive (NW Airlines Flight 2550). Her mom, dad, brother, & 153 others total died. She was found still belted in her seat, faced down with 3rd-degree burns & fractures to her skull, collarbone & leg
wowr6 TIL Tetrachromats (mostly women) can distinguish upto 100 million colours since they posses a 4th type of cone cell , apart from having the regular RBG cone cells
l79O7 TIL about Ganser Syndrome, a.k.a. Nonsense Syndrome, wherein people dissociate and give wrong, yet almost correct, answers to questions (i.e. 3+3=7/Dogs have five legs, etc.) whilst in a fugue state, and psychologists aren't sure if it is a facticious disorder or a dissociative disorder.
R5jM4 TIL Earth's oldest land ecosystem was spotted in South African rock cores
X0aYD TIL Virginia Woolf, Horace de Vere Cole and others pretended to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage. They obtained permission to visit the HMS Dreadnought. It was reported that each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase "bunga, bunga!"