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TIL that Gandhi wrote a letter to “every Briton” urging them to surrender to Hitler and “Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings.”

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5Edp TIL that in the 70s the US government sprayed Paraquat (a poisonous herbicide) on marijuana fields in Mexico in order to help stop drug issues in Mexico however much of the treated plants showed up in the US market
J1ae1 TIL a study showed that an average of 325 plastic particles were found in a liter of bottled water as compared to 5.5 plastic particles per liter of tap water.
oR1a7 TIL The Dutch East India Company was the the first publicly traded company in the world.
Xr6R TIL a man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing and eating the last Indochinese tiger in China.
PYAaE TIL that in the Science of Discworld books, which tells of a flat "earth" floating through space, there is a organization called Omnianism, on Discworld, that believes the Discworld is round.