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TIL Cows are considered sacred in Hindu culture, but India is one of the top four exporters of beef in the world.

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vPZK7 TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.
PjnV TIL that psychopaths are immune to contagious yawning due to their lack of empathy, which is a core psychological factor that leads to catching yawns.
R7jV4 TIL that Fidel Castro survived 638 CIA assassination attempts
E0MV TIL in the early 1930s, Stalin killed about 3.3 million Soviet Ukrainians under a plan to kill peasants in order to seize their land. After starving in mass numbers as a result of Stalin’s orders, Stalin blamed Ukrainians and used this as a pretext for even harsher measures.
6EGmY TIL that the country north of Greece is still known internationally as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or FYROM because Greece objects to the use of the name ‘Macedonia’. This debate has gone on since the 40’s.