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TIL that Joseph Stalin has a living granddaughter that lives in America

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OG91e TIL that the Tsaatan people of northern Mongolia are one of the last remaining nomadic reindeer herding cultures, living in harmony with their reindeer in the taiga forests.
oB057 TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who in 1960 prevented nuclear war when NORAID misidentified the rising moon as 1000 Soviet Nuclear missiles, by asking where Khrushchev was
x66AB TIL a Sitting US Senator Was Killed During the Civil War While Commanding Troops
daZ7 TIL India is launching its mass electronic surveillance program in 2014. It will give 9 Indian govt. agencies—incl. the tax dept—the power to access, in real-time, phone conversations, text, emails, web search data & social media activity WITHOUT the approval of the courts or parliament.
R7Maj TIL that jellyfish have developed the most efficient form of swimming among all animals. They manage to achieve a 48% lower cost of movement than other aquatic animals.