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TIL of the Hindu-German Conspiracy, an attempt to organize a revolt in the British Raj during WW1 by Indian nationalists. It received support from Germany, Turkey and the Irish republican movement. A major mutiny was prevented after the US Ghadar Party was infiltrated by British intelligence agents.

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Y78w7 TIL The Yacaratiá tree, called the bread tree by jesuit priests, is the only tree in the world with edible wood due to its lack of cellulose. It is a local delicacy in its native province of Misiones, on the Argentine coast.
QN4DE TIL the fastest growing sport in America is pickleball, a hybrid racketball sport.
5lpD TIL a man renovated a three story hotel specifically to kill people. It included stairways to nowhere and a maze of over 100 windowless rooms. He killed as many as 200 people in it. The skeletons of his victims were sold to medical schools.
GLe5 TIL of the “Women Are Wonderful” effect: that people associate more positive attributes to women than to men, in general. While this attribution was true of both genders, woman’s in-group bias was 4 times greater than men’s.
R71Pl TIL of William Shepherd of the Expedition 1 crew on the ISS. He is a Navy SEAL, studied 3 types of engineering, and was award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.