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TIL that Ghandi slept naked along with his great-niece and several other young women to test his ability to abstain from sexual relations as part of a spiritual chastity experiment.

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kJ8r4 TIL Venmurasu is the world's longest novel, spanning 26,000 pages. An Indian writer completed it in just six years. It is a modern retelling of the Indian classical epic Mahabharata, with some minor details expanded into standalone stories the length of a typical novel.
R51n6 TIL that in 1858 the United States sent a squadron to invade Paraguay but they ended up establishing a relationship instead
4kD7g TIL that Rupert Holmes, the man who sang "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”, has never tasted a piña colada in his life. In fact, the song was originally about the actor Humphrey Bogart, rather than the cocktail.
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