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TIL that Gandhi once sent a letter to his friend urging him not to go to war. This friend was Hitler.

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XmRD TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.
X0kjj TIL there was once a Danish chef who spent ten years undercover arranging a fake arms deal with North Korea - and filmed it all
ZpM9Q TIL on 1978, in Pennsylvania, Robert McFall, suffering from terminal aplasitc anemia, sued first cousin David Shimp to force him to give him bone marrow but court ruled against him. He died of massive hemorrhage half a month after
LQYm9 TIL that the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., is primarily freshwater. However, during extremely high tides or significant storm surges, brackish water—a mixture of saltwater and freshwater will go as far upriver as DC.
5MpQ TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only Pope in the history to have served 3 Papal terms.. And the only Pope to have sold Papacy… and the First Pope said to have been primarily homosexual who held orgies in the Lateran palace