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TIL that nearly 4 million Indians died in 1942 because of an artificial famine caused by the British government

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PV6g TIL: There is a theory that the Dursleys in Harry Potter were such bad people because they were living with a horcrux (harry) for so long, similar to how other ones affected Ron and Ginny Weasley
ANkN4 TIL That, until recently, people who spent more than six months in Britain from 1980 to 1997 were unable to donate blood because of an outbreak of "mad cow disease" in the area at that time
69RBl TIL that Emma Gibson, conceived in 1992 and frozen as an embryo, was born in 2017.
JYXe1 TIL The concept of setting the clocks ahead in the spring in order to make better use of natural daylight was first introduced by US inventor Benjamin Franklin in 1784.
78oyL TIL that in 2009, hundreds of brightly-colored bird specimens were stolen from the Natural History Museum London. It was later found that a student had sold them online to be used for fly-fishing lures.