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TIL no voter in India has to travel more than 2km to reach a polling station, even remote voters in the mountains or deep in the jungle

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grl07 TIL the lead singer of Boney M, the band that had the song “Rasputin” died on the same date and in the same town as the real Rasputin.
KyLQ TIL that the Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army is a penguin called Sir Nils Olav
4er6 TIL Reddit’s founders posted content under lots of fake usernames during the early days to set content tone
4pVw TIL: The scenes in E.T. where E.T. walked awkwardly or fell over was a 12 year old in an E.T. costume who was born without legs and walked on his hands.
loJvr TIL New Line Cinema gambled their entire company on the success of the Lord of The Rings franchise, by committing to all three films for > $270M up front.