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TIL "Nuclear Gandhi", a glitch in the video game Civilization which makes the typically peaceful leader Gandhi aggressively use nuclear weapons, is a myth. There's no evidence such a glitch exists in the game, and several of the game's creators have stated that it's impossible for it to happen.

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p8kN TIL Leon Theremin invented the Rhythmicon, the world’s first drum-machine. Today is his birthday.
nE5B TIL When the leading emergency asthma medication Albuterol’s patent expired, the patent holding pharmaceutical companies lobbied to have their own inhalers banned based on environmental issues, allowing them to file a new patent, and continue to monopolize the market.
PYjpg TIL Komodo dragon's mouths aren't dirty; they are actually venomous
QJle9 TIL that, in biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.
lplK TIL: Women are the majority of human traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed. They accounted for more than 60% of the human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.