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TIL that every voter in India has the right to a conveniently located polling station. This includes taking a voting machine deep into the forest for just one guy.

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R7b1a TIL about Nelson Bryant who lost his trench knife in 1944 during World War II as he escaped from nearby enemy soldiers in Holland. 73 years after the day he parachuted into Groesbeek, Holland, Mr. Bryant will receive his lost knife.
b9jo4 TIL about WhatThreeWords, a navigation system where the entire world's surface is divided into 3 meter squares, and each square can be described by a unique combination of 3 simple words.
nOlr TIL Chadwick (the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron).
N6Pb TIL William Halsted, a pioneering surgeon from the 19th century who discovered anesthetic properties of cocaine, eventually got addicted to it. He signed himself up in a sanatorium where his addiction was “treated” with morphine. He remained a morphine addict for the rest of his life
GYkE7 TIL doctors from UCLA found unique blood cells that can help fight infections in a man from Seattle's spleen, so they stole the cells from his body and developed it into medicine without paying him, getting his consent, or even letting him know they were doing it.