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TIL: in 1933 Western Australia voted to leave the Australian federation. On the same day as the referendum they voted in a pro stay state government and secession never happened.

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b99e4 TIL that before alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, it was common for people in Britain and Ireland to hire a 'knocker-upper", a person who's job was to wake people by using a long stick to tap on their windows, or in some instances, they would use a pea-shooter.
eQ8L TIL that a man tried to establish the Kingdom of North Sudan so that his daughter could be a princess.
8jQP TIL of Rosemary Kennedy. Rosemary grew into a rebellious teen so she was given a lobotomy and turned into a vegetable. During the surgery, she was asked to sing “God Bless America”, which the Doctors used to determine how deep they should cut - “when she began to become incoherent, they stopped.”
xVyND TIL in February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.
69dNX TIL of Choo Ba'ak - Day of the Dead tradition from Pomuch, Mexico where the bones of dead relatives are removed from their graves and get cleaned.