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TIL Nathuram Godse, Gandhi's assassin, was raised as a girl by his parents due to them believing a curse targeting their sons after having lost three of their other sons, with Nathuram literally meaning "Ram with a nose-ring"

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0d5KN TIL about “Draupadi Pratha,” a rare tradition practiced in the Indian Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, where a woman marries multiple brothers in the same family (fraternal polyandry), inspired by the Mahabharata’s Draupadi, and followed historically to preserve family land.
1Ywr TIL the head of Columbia Studios had Sammy Davis Jr. kidnapped by the Mafia to keep him from marrying a white woman.
OMya TIL that a truckload of bananas can trip nuclear weapon scanners because of the slight radiation each banana gives off from their potassium isotopes
neaYY TIL that Winston Churchill spent Christmas 1941 in Washington as a guest of President Roosevelt. After electrifying Congress with a speech, he stayed up Christmas Eve watching a movie with his new BFF Roosevelt and the Canadian prime minister... then had a heart attack and shrugged it off.
xmQ7 TIL Bob Marley, against popular belief, didn’t believe in smoking marijuana for recreation. He thought cannabis should be used for religious and medicinal purposes.