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TIL in India a serial rapist was lynched to death by 200 women in front of judge inside court premises.

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yQX4M TIL scientists can determine a blue whale's age by counting the layers of it's waxlike earplugs after it passes away.
N7mO1 TIL in 1967 California State Senator Nicholas C. Petris proposed banning the use of internal combustion cars on California's roads by 1975.
NXnrM TIL that Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix to star in Wild, Wild West
yrBM TIL nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.
GAkOE TIL On the down low: Bimetallism - Bimetallism,[a] also known as the bimetallic standard, is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent to certain quantities of two metals, typically gold and silver, creating a fixed rate of exchange between them.[3]