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TIL about an Australian man who was legally dead for 14 minutes, but came back to life to win the lottery twice.

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Z8ZEQ TIL that the melody to the medieval English folk song "Nottamun Town" was considered lost to history until musicologists found isolated, illiterate, populations in Appalachia singing the song with a common melody and lyrics.
rNYWM TIL the Moche civilization of Peru developed a batteryless electroplating technique during the first few centuries AD to deposit a thin layer of gold over copper
9wlED TIL: In the Palace of Westminster, the UK's parliamentary building, there are nearly 30 different bars. In the 1980s, an estimated 10 per cent of MPs were alcoholics.
X0GgR TIL the first woman to be on the ballot in all 50 states was in 1988: a black woman named Lenora Fulani. She is 74 years old now.
D1wlY TIL that 17 miles (27km) from Mount Rushmore, a gigantic sculpture is being carved in the Black Hills, showing Native Chief Crazy Horse on his steed, pointing east. The contruction has started in 1948 and will take another 50 years to be completed.