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TIL Buddha noticed that the food offered by a blacksmith named Cunda was spoiled, but he didn't want to make Cunda feel bad and so he ate it. The Buddha then fell sick and died.

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X0nV8 TIL about Ina Benita, "the first Polish femme fatale", an interwar movie star that was believed dead after the Warsaw Uprising, but completely anonymously lived in the US until 1984. Her grandson only discovered this 30 years after her death. (translation from DE wiki due to depth)
ARwd TIL not a single cactus grows in the Sahara, as cacti are native only to the Americas.
69AwW TIL that pythons and boa constructors are the only types of snakes that have legs, although they are really tiny
GOD7 TIL Russia inflates its military with realistic blow-up weapons that can trick enemy radar such as inflatable tanks and MiG fighter jets and even entire radar stations.
AKYg TIL there’s an empty 26-story skyscraper in Rhode Island with no tenants that has been appraised as having “no value.”