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TIL that a civilization in ancient India existed for 2000 years without any war

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PYOkL TIL that Helen Keller was an radical activist, campaigning for the Socialist Party and helping start the ACLU.
gralb TIL that thousands of Graffiti inscriptions, with the earliest dating back to 1605 by the first Spanish Governor of New Mexico, have been carved into the El Morro National Monument in New Mexico.
0oGR TIL that Astrid Lindgren, the author of Pippi Longstocking, at one point paid a marginal tax rate of 102%. She nevertheless supported the Social Democratic Party responsible for the tax rate her whole life.
VBW4D TIL the Allies fielded thousands of tanks by the end of World War I, a major technological breakthrough. The Germans deployed just 18.
9wZyX TIL of the Y2k38 Problem. Similar in nature to the Y2K bug, when the year 2038 strikes 03:14:07 UTC on 19 March, computers still using 32-bit systems to process the date and time may not be able to cope with the time change and could revert to the year 1901.