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TIL in 1977 Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia, a poor Indian artist, rode a second-hand bicycle for 4 weeks and 3 days from New Delhi to Gothenburg in Sweden to meet his love Charlotte Von Schedvin because he didn’t have enough money. They married and have 2 children.

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lKEB TIL that the CIA carried out a terrorist campaign against civilian Viet Cong sympathizers in which over 26,000 were killed while some 55,000 others were captured and subjected to rape, electrocution, maulings, and other torture.
1akp4 TIL on visitng Kiev after WW2, John Steinbeck wrote: "If the United States were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers,... you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine."
VMJ8G TIL of a traffic light in United States that is deliberately upside down - In 1920's the Irish community at Tipperary Hill, Syracuse didn't like that the "British" red appeared above the "Irish" green on the light and kept vandalizing it until New York State was convinced to keep it green over red.
BrpDW TIL: Only 91 of the 3,715 animals in the Berlin Zoo survived World War II. After the Soviet occupation of Berlin, most of these remaining animals were eaten by Red Army soldiers or simply "dissapeared".
LZLp TIL there is a type of ice that only forms on rotting wood, and is created thanks to a fungus. It is called hair ice, and resembles white, silky hair.