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TIL in 2015 a US University suspended a Jewish student who had posted a Hindu Swastika on his residence hall's University board. He had learnt about the symbol on a spring break trip to India.

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69XQW TIL: Some solid chemicals can absorb so much air moisture that they dissolve in it. This is called deliquescence.
RwE1 TIL Neo-Nazism has grown so popular in Mongolia that armed gangs in Nazi uniform often deface Chinese businesses and murder Korean/Chinese/LGBT folks “under the auspices” of both Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan. They also run a Neo-Nazi/nationalist party called the Dayar Mongol.
xAw0 TIL that Henry Kissinger once said that “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”
ZyoQ TIL that Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was illiterate for most of his childhood because he missed three years of school due to tuberculosis and peritonitis
PYErV TIL Halloween has experienced exponential growth over the last decade thanks mostly to millennials, as 8 out of 10 people who celebrate Halloween are millennials