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TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village

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6E84w TIL Stalin extensively used photo alteration to rewrite history, having enemies who had been killed, then removed from photos to completely blot out their existence.
eRAD TIL: After the Chernobyl disaster, the soviets held a “May Day” parade to calm the public. The parade was exposed to deadly levels of radiation and all records of the event soon disappeared from the National Archives. The organizer committed suicide.
grwGX TIL Hiroshima’s streetcar network was reopened three days after the atomic bombing of the city
Oo0ae TIL that in 1998, the face of Jesus Christ appeared on the side of a grocery store in South America and attracted hundreds of worshippers. A rainstorm revealed that the visage was nothing more than a poster of Willie Nelson that had been painted over.
8eGWV TIL that the BMI cutoff to be considered obese is lower for Asian-Pacific populations (≥25 kg/m^2) vs the WHO standard (≥30)