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TIL that during WWII, nearly 1,000 Polish children were deported to Siberian gulags. Starving and displaced, they found refuge in India, welcomed by Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, who built them a home, gave them schooling, and treated them as his own.

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oRB9E TIL that the iconic Lord of the Rings poster—one of the best-selling posters of all time—was drawn at the age of 17 by Jimmy Cauty, one half of The KLF.
ANYEn TIL that chemotherapy can be traced back to the sinking of an Allied ship secretly carrying chemical weapons in WW2
m150o TIL the song "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the 1964 movie Mary Poppins was written by the Sherman brothers. They were sued by songwriters who had written a prior song by the same name. The brothers won; however, it was discovered that the word was used earlier in 1931.
7gRp TIL There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.
xP4g TIL Homefront, a video game released in early 2011, based on a war against a North Korean global power, has so far successfully predicted both the year of Kim Jong-Il’s death (2011) and North Korea’s nuclear test in 2013.