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TIL Gandhi believed the Jews should have committed mass suicide instead of being killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust

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l7mr TIL that whalers would kill whales by stabbing their lungs until they choked to death on their own blood, eventually spouting a stream of gore called “chimneys of fire.”
1666P TIL since the 1st generation Dodge Viper has no exterior door handles, one has to unzip vinyl windows to open the Viper's doors when the top and windows are in place.
R5414 Til of the Peshtigo fire, the deadliest wildfire in world history that took place in Peshtigo, Wisconsin in 1871. It occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, and has been largely forgotten, though it killed 5 times as many as the Great Chicago Fire.
16MKO TIL that Nathaniel Coe, a Whig politician, declined nomination to the United States Senate, instead choosing to serve as an inspector for the United States Postal Service.
8ewyX TIL in 2014 sewol ferry tragedy, the crew was dranking beer while waiting rescue and the captain told students to stay in the ship and abandoning the ship,the tradegy kills over 300 students and the captain and his crew are now in jail.