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TIL about Japanese Kangiten inspired by the Indian Ganesha

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WkVQY TIL of Wenseslao Moguel, Man who survived his own execution, surviving 9 bullets and lived to the age of 85
4Eew TIL there was Russian novel published in 1999 which re-tells The Lord of The Rings from Sauron’s Perpective
grDMX TIL that after the 1855 death of the great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, his brain was preserved for study and became the subject of numerous papers. It was only discovered in 1998 that the his label had gotten swapped with that of the brain of pathologist Conrad Fuchs who died the same year.
ZpJ9a TIL the common ancestor that all life on Earth descended from, is called LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
wLLM8 TIL The country of Swaziland has banned witches from flying above an altitude of 150 meters in 2013