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TIL six million voters’ names were deleted from the ballot in Maharashtra, India’s richest state, for no apparent reason

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mx8rE TIL that Maroon 5 was banned from China after keyboardist Jesse Carmichael wished the Dalai Lama of Tibet a happy birthday on Twitter
PYb9w TIL the Urumi Sword of India is considered the most dangerous sword to wield in history. Instead of a rigid blade, it is made of long, flexible, whip like blades that can be fitted to have more than one blade/whip per handle.
npM7 TIL-Alan Rickman has been with his first girlfriend since 1965 - when he was 19 years old
OroY TIL 1816 was called “The Year Without a Summer” after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Crop failure forced Joseph Smith to leave Vermont, and his journeys resulted in “The Book of Mormon,” the dreary rain in Switzerland drove Mary Shelley to stay indoors, where she wrote “Frankenstein.”
0woxy TIL that in 2011, there was a riot in Vancouver following the defeat of the Vancouver Canucks in the NHL Stanley Cup Championship with 140 injuries, 1 death, and about $5 Million in damages.