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TIL strawberries top the 'Dirty Dozen' list of fruits and vegetables with the most pesticides

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VMYem TIL in 1977 Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia, a poor Indian artist, rode a second-hand bicycle for 4 weeks and 3 days from New Delhi to Gothenburg in Sweden to meet his love Charlotte Von Schedvin because he didn’t have enough money. They married and have 2 children.
KjLJ TIL that Nestle was accused of getting third world mothers hooked on formula, which is less healthy and more expensive than breast milk.
16vo7 TIL that in 1996 a woman by the name of Georgiana Doerschuck ran for President. Her entire campaign platform was on banning computers. She received a measly 140 votes in the New Hampshire Primary.
ADjO7 TIL about Katyn massacre, a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940.
EwVx TIL that in the history of Ireland’s inventions, there’s a 300-year gap after the invention of whiskey.