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TIL Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, sent letters to Hitler pleading with him to avoid war noting that he himself "shunned the method of war not without considerable success"

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nWxB TIL Canada has the worst human rights record in terms of mining companies operating overseas.
9YVWM TIL that the tongue map that I learned about in school (and some schools still teach today) is a myth. Your entire tongue can taste all flavors, and your soft palate as well as your throat also have taste buds.
WkL0A TIL of Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos and Mayor Karres, who, when ordered to list and turn in the entire Jewish population of Zakynthos, Greece, promptly hid them in various rural islands and turned in a list containing only their own names. The entire Jewish population survived.
ypGp TIL the tails of comets point away from the sun, not behind its travel direction
GMR4 TIL long before trees overtook the land, Earth’s surface was covered by gigantic 24 feet tall and three feet wide mushrooms.