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TIL that in India, you can only run for local government if you have two or fewer children.

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XEMMX TIL that Natalie Portman is a published researcher in Psychology. Her first scientific paper was co-authored while still in high school. It was entered into the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search and made it all the way to the semi-finals.
6DOw TIL crevices and crevasses aren’t the same thing. A crevice forms in rock, but a crevasse forms in ice.
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vPPBD TIL of Mary Jane Seacole, a British -Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War arguably practicing nursing hygiene before Florence Nightingale
YpRnA TIL in WWII German command ordered encircled US troops in Bastogne to surrender, to which Gen Anthony McAuliffe replied simply: NUTS! When Col Joseph Harper delivered the message to the German commander, the commander asked what the message meant. Harper replied, "In plain English? Go to hell."