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TIL Penal colony of Australia had its own penal colony on Tasmania for people who reoffended after being sent there

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jgja TIL the opposite of deja vu is ‘jamais vu’. This happens when you experience something you recognise but feel extremely unfamiliar with. It can also happen when seeing a person you know or reading a word you’ve seen many times before
QJ519 TIL that Spain has been in the wrong time zone for 7 decades. Spain's dictator Francisco Franco set the country's clocks an hour ahead in World War II in order to be aligned with Nazi Germany, and the change was never reverted.
4XM76 TIL about Samuel J. Seymour, a five-year-old boy who witnessed the Lincoln assassination. At 96 Seymour was a guest on the TV show I've Got a Secret. He didn't realize the president had been shot, but he felt bad for Booth, thinking Booth had fallen out of the box, when he jumped down to escape.
4XJKX TIL the psychedelic furs song “Pretty in Pink” inspired the 80’s cult classic of the same name. But, the song is not about a dress, it refers to the beauty of the nude female body. The popularity of the song with young girls alienated the band’s older fan base.
XYPQ TIL that in 1958, the Navy expected its human-level A.I. “to be finished in about a year at a cost of $100,000.”