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TIL that Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.

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vnAL (TIL) Liechtenstein a nation smaller than the size of Washington D.C. has been accidentally invaded three times in the past thirty years by their neighbor Switzerland.
wNe7 TIL a hacker was able to recreate the fingerprint of the German Defense Minister from a photograph. This is the same hacker who defeated Apple’s thumbprint verification within 24 hours of the release of the iPhone 5S.
6LnW TIL of “spite houses,” buildings constructed solely to irritate and spite neighbors.
R5986 TIL: Luxury designer, Jonathan Schwinge designed a Tetrahedron Superyacht which puts the yacht above the water to avoid turbulence. However, no one has funded the project yet.
XEegD TIL of an Eating Disorder first coined in 1996 called Orthorexia Nervosa (that is not in the officiall not in theDSM-V) where sufferers of this ED have an unhealthy obsession and fixation on food quality, health and purity that is rooted in food and eating restriction.