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TIL that Australian aboriginal tribes have oral history and legends that accurately describe old geographic features and document the sea rise that are between 7,000 and 18,000 years old.

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loKmN TIL there have been 32 ‘Broken Arrow’ or missing Nuclear Weapon alerts by the United States alone with 6 Nuclear Weapons still unaccounted for.
RnKw TIL that Penn from Penn & Teller owns U.S. Patent 5,920,923 for the “Jill-Jet”, a hot-tub jet specially angled for a woman’s pleasure.
GAvJQ TIL that There is a ranking to measure a country's level of multiculturalism (ethnic, linguistic and religious). The most ethnically and linguistically diverse is Uganda and the most religiously diverse is South Africa.
VMbd0 TIL that the Olympic Rings logo represents Earth's five continents and the colors of the rings, with the white background, were chosen because those colors could make every country's flag as each existed in 1915.
ADwG4 TIL that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter (pictured) drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the CIA