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TIL that a man in India was wrongly declared dead by the government, and to disprove this he had to go as far as contesting against the incumbent Prime Minister in an election.

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PRAn TIL about the Georgia Guidestones, a 238k pound monument in Georgia, by some people seen as “the American stonehenge”
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