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TIL the Nuclear Gandhi bug from Civilization actually never existed

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vOnL TIL mountains on the moon Titan are named after mountains from JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth
vgjr TIL: USA Has Been At War 223 Out of 240 Years – Since 1776 i.e. USA has been at peace for in total 17 years since it’s birth.
ANRKa TIL Amanita phalloides (also known as death cap) is the most poisonous of all known mushrooms. It is estimated that as little as half a mushroom contains enough toxin to kill an adult human. It is also the deadliest mushroom worldwide, responsible for 90% of mushroom-related fatalities every year.
YR8B TIL that Henry Ford loved Hitler and received the Nazi regime’s highest medal for a foreigner
vYAD TIL in a 2010 poll seventy-nine percent of Democrats said they support permitting “gay men and lesbians” to serve openly in the armed forces but only 43 percent, said they were in favor of allowing “homosexuals” to serve openly.