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TIL Ivan the Terrible died during a game of chess

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8KoP TIL that in Israel there is something called the “Jewish Internet Defense Force”, a government run propagandist movement that hires Israeli students, puts them in front of a computer googling to find anything that criticises Israel and had them try to remove it or claim it is a lie…
Vxr8 TIL there is a statistically significant increase in fatal car accidents in the days after daylight savings time, presumably due to disruption in sleep patterns.
xMg5 TIL That Ghandi Was Extremely Racist Towards Africans and even Lobbied for Segregated Entrances To Public Buildings
0wlMM TIL Harry Patch, the last surviving combat soldier of WW1 to have fought in the trenches, died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day
x6LBk TIL that a town in Florida got the nickname “Nub City” in the 50s and 60s because the residents learned they could get insurance money by amputating their own limbs.