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TIL that Gandhi was extremely misogynistic

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dDVwj TIL the link between creative genius and mental illness. That highly creative artists have temperaments more akin to manic depressives than to the general public
7bvp TIL a key aerospace scientist in the U.S. named Qian Xue Shen, was forced to return to China during the Red Scare, where he founded the Chinese space and missile programs.
BrKwe TIL that, in 2016, the European Union ordered Apple to pay Ireland $14 billion in lost taxes
xV1Y1 TIL the Australian Lyrebird can impersonate practically anything he hears to catch the attention of a possible mate, even going as far as making a camera shutter noise or a chainsaw taking a tree down.
4kyDw TIL before Theodore Roosevelt came to office in 1901, the White House wasn't called the White House. People called the building the President's Palace, the President's House, and the Executive Mansion. Roosevelt officially named it the White House.