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TIL that the 15 largest commercial ships in the world create as much pollution in a year as every car on the planet

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woAQW TIL that, in 1947, there was a proposal to create an independent united Bengali state instead of partitioning Bengal between India and Pakistan. It was not accepted, though it did have some support. (In 1971, east Bengal, also known as East Pakistan, acquired its independence as Bangladesh.)
neYG7 TIL that the word 'companion' comes from the Latin words 'com' (with) + 'pane' (bread), so the origins of companion/companionship are those you share bread with
b9Pma TIL that in 1904 a British mission lead by Colonel Francis Younghusband killed 1,300 Tibetans in Gyangzê. This is omitted in every Western media statement about Tibetan independence from PRC.
p8xre TIL that every number is the sum of three palindromes
X1gk TIL during a tour of Germany in 1958, Groucho Marx climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler’s bunker, the site of Hitler’s death, and performed a two-minute Charleston