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TIL Gandhi believed women who were raped lost their value as human beings & condoned honor killings. He also labelled women who used contraceptives “whores.” Towards the end of his life, he moderated his views.

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1a5bP TIL Cork, Ireland is the global HQ for Tic Tacs, producing 8.8 boxes of Tic Tac drops per minute, or, 36 Tic Tacs per second, serving 45% of all tic tacs sold globally.
P6Ng TIL Coca Cola is paying $100,000 to anyone who can find a new source of natural sweetener.
epmDn TIL: Winston Churchill wrote an estimated eight to ten million words in more than forty books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and at least two film scripts. In 1953, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
XEyLP TIL there is an old (still active) law in Denmark, that if the sea between Denmark and Sweden freezes over, and a swede crosses the frozen water, you can beat them with a stick.
jvVa TIL according to MIT the toughest tongue twister is: “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod”