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TIL that 22 Arab countries all offered full recognition of Israel if they supported a Two-State solution for Palestine, and are rejected to this day

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DQAEJ TIL that when Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi ordered an assault on the most holy Sikh temple, security services removed Sikhs from her bodyguards, including one of her favorite guards. She promptly reinstated him, and a few months later he assassinated her.
ZX1Q TIL that the Ghost Chili was investigated by India as a nonlethal way to flush out terrorists from their hideouts and to control rioters. It was called a “Chili Grenade.”
DLYD TIL J.R.R. Tolkien began a book named “The Lost Road,” which concerned modern-day people experiencing “flashbacks” to their former selfs in Middle Earth. He died before finishing it.
YEAA TIL that when an Asian giant hornet, a gigantic wasp that preys on bees, enters the nest of Japanese honeybees, the bees will gather around it and form a ball that encloses it, causing it to overheat and die.
9YdM TIL British Columbia has the most ghost towns of any jurisdiction in North America, estimated at more than 1500