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TIL The world's largest family stays in India. The husband has 39 wives and 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram.

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vDVD TIL During WW2, a Cambridge professor accidentally dropped the entire United Kingdom supply of plutonium (10mg) onto a table. He sawed a hole around the spill and burned that bit of table, recovering 9mg from the Ashes. He was found out because he was too tired to fix the table.
BrYnK TIL about Cambridge Analytica targeting people with traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy introducing narratives into Facebook groups, ads, articles to inflame segments of people
GY6m1 TIL "Seven Days to the River Rhine", a USSR battle plan forged at 1979, which planned to carpet bombing western Europe with nukes so the forces Warsaw Pact could push to Rhine river within a week.
8adoL TIL that Finland doesn't have any official national anthem. The one unofficial they have has lyrics in Swedish and the same music as the Estonian official national anthem.
wvaY TIL that people with anxiety perceive the world differently-their brain lumps both safe and unsafe things together and labels them all unsafe.