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TIL an election team in India travels over 35km to collect a vote from a single voter in the region.

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R551 TIL Goldfish can differentiate between different people and will “beg” for food from their owners
a8Evy TIL that the reason printers refuse to print without yellow ink is because they print a Machine Identification Code on every page, leaving a unique microscopic pattern of yellow dots that say what the serial number and model of the printer is, allowing the documents to be traced back to the owner.
9w46r TIL: The oldest still operating casino in the world is Casino di Venezia which opened in 1638. It was originally a theatre which offered gambling during intermissions. It was renamed several times and inspired the James Bond film "Casino Royale".
7wnX TIL the Earth’s day got shorter by 2.68 microseconds because of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
YRAZ TIL; Israel supported apartheid regime of South Africa, defying international sanctions, to acquire uranium for the sake of producing its nuclear arsenal.