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TIL that Indian actor Bonda Mani did not receive Indian citizenship and forever remained as a refugee in India until his death

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pY4p4 TIL that cities in New England often had a plot of land dedicated for people who didn’t own land. They are known as “poor farms”. Some of them still exist today and are established by towns as land that must be used for charitable purposes.
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