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TIL that "Dhoodh Peeti" was a type of female infanticide prevalent in few northwestern parts of India in which newborn girls were drowned in pails or pits of cow milk. The phrase is a euphemism which literally means "Feeding of milk"

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eb4b TIL that Magda Goebbels, wife of the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, adored Hitler so much that named her six children after him. Right before Germany’s defeat in WWII, she killed them all and commited suicide.
oBlDY TIL about "Earthquake Baroque", an architectural style developed after a series of earthquakes on the Philippines - stone buildings like churches were made low and wide, with thick, buttressed walls like fortress ramparts
kOXk5 TIL Taj Mahal turns pink at the dawn, white in noon and yellow in the dusk.
K9aE TIL in 1943 the Nazis made a propoganda film about the Titanic showing the British as cowards and the Germans as brave. The hero is a German officer who saves third-class passengers and the villan is a British owner of the ship who recklessly crashes the boat while trying to break a speed record.
nWrxr TIL in 2018, the 120-resident village of Acquetico in Italy installed speed cameras after being fed up with people speeding through it. In next 2 weeks, it recorded 58,500 speeding infractions.