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TIL about the Chapati movement of 1857 in India where thousands of flatbreads were mysteriously distributed across North Indian villages. It is still a mystery as to who did this and why with both local Indians and the British assuming it was the other's doings

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gbpA TIL that Russia will spend about $200,000 maintaining Vladimir Lenin’s corpse this year. Maintenance includes bathing the body in chemicals and occasionally replacing parts.
NXGZP TIL of Ernst Haeckel a German scientist who in 1914 was the first person to call The First World War, The First World War.
RkZ4 TIL a Salvadoran consul saved up to 40,000 people from the Nazis by giving them fake identity papers. Barely anybody has heard of him.
joNR TIL at the time aboriginals arrived on Australia, there was a 20ft long, up to 4000lbs/2000kg carnivorous lizard named Megalania. Being Australia, of course, it is thought it was also highly venomous.
kQoe TIL Arrested Development actor, David Cross, was arrested in 2012 for snorting cocaine in the White House.