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TIL Hitler’s popularity is rising in India.

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EgQRw TIL NATO article 5 doesn’t cover anything outside of Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.
wLA46 TIL that Tolkein's Lord of The Rings trilogy has a word count of 481,103 words. In comparison, book 3 of another popular fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin called A Storm of Swords alone has a word count of 424,000 words.
e0yXb TIL that a small but powerful tropical cyclone (called: Typhoon Gay) caused more than 800 fatalities in and around the Gulf of Thailand in November 1989.
p8Blb TIL Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts “can't stand snakes [and is] scared to death of the damn things”, but he still carried around a 100 pounds python and later on a king cobra with him because “there were enough zeros on [his] contract to make him forget about his fear [of snakes]”.
a8G8o TIL that there are breeds of domesticated pigeons that are specifically selected for their ability to tumble or roll in the air