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TIL that 41% of Australians don't know how long it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun.

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rR0No TIL that the longest single "conflict" was the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years War, allegedly between the Netherlands and the Isle of Scilly, extended by a lack of a peace treaty for 335 years, without a shot ever being fired.
GY1J4 TIL that the very first western film to play on North Korean state TV was Bend It Like Beckham in order to celebrate a decade of diplomatic ties to the UK
R0jl TIL of Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley’s head of security at the World Trade Center, who predicted the 1993 bombings and the 2001 attack. He ignored the Port Authority’s instructions to not evacuate, and saved all but seven of his 2,687 employees. He died in the towers.
6JjZ TIL of Aphantasia, a condition where a person is unable to create imagery in their mind’s eye.
KO1eB TIL of the 1975 Moorgate tube crash, where 43 people died and 74 were injured after a London Underground train failed to stop and ran into a dead end at speed