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TIL Mahatma Gandhi's first name was actually Mohandas. His followers called him Mahatma, Sanskrit for "the great-souled one"

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M7bkm TIL The Vatican, seat of the Pope, has a "hot fireman" calendar called the "Calendeario Romano" featuring The Vatican's hottest Priests
69WLZ TIL that George Harrison is one of the few artists to have an active single on the Billboard charts at the time he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He also has more solo US #1 hits than any other ex-Beatle.
neMGo TIL in 1955 a Plymouth owner had her 10-day-old car suddenly veer off into a wall while she was driving. The dealer refused to pay for repairs, claiming that the warranty only covered repairing defective parts, not the damages caused by them. However, they got sued and lost the case.
QYod TIL Julius Caesar owned a pet giraffe that Pliny referred to as a “wild sheep” because of its docile nature. Caesar eventually ended up feeding his giraffe to the lions at the Coliseum.
DQLVJ TIL Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) refers to a lifelong inability to vividly recollect or re-experience personal past events from a first-person perspective.