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TIL that in 1947, despite preaching non-violence, Gandhi accepted armed protection from Gopal Mukherjee's team during a violent attack by a crowd in Calcutta, after he provided written consent for their use of sten guns and hand grenades

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kJjvm TIL that the famed painting “American Gothic” was entered into a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago. It won third place. The museum only bought the painting at the urging of a patron, and has had it ever since.
e0W9k TIL that in 1906 Eleanor Roosevelt bought a chicken-wire cage for hanging from the window of her New York City townhouse for first child, Anna, to nap in—a practice known as "airing" for city dwelling children.
x6Vr7 TIL about a super modern €1.4bn nuclear power plant in Austria that never went into service, because a 50.47% majority in a referendum voted against it.. after it was built.
pK9Q TIL that Russia will provide you with a free football pitch-sized tract of land in its Far East to settle upon and start your own farm or business. After 5 years, you will be given Russian citizenship.
jgkN TIL Notorious English pirate captain Benjamin Hornigold (1680–1719) once attacked a ship off the coast of Honduras just to replace his crew’s hats (they had drunkenly lost them the night before)