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TIL Western Australia passed a referendum in 1933 to secede from Australia, only to be denied by the British Government.

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L1vP TIL the City of Manchester in the UK has a “Gay Village”, which consists of a fully-gay supermarket, and the bars and clubs attract over 20,000 visitors per weekend.
84BP TIL that between the 1630s and the American Revolution, one-half to two-thirds of white immigrants to the American colonies arrived under a voluntary (yet temporary) form of slavery, in which they typically received no wages, and some rights, such as the right to marry, were restricted.
np4W TIL women lost her wedding ring for 16 years before finding it growing on a carrot in her garden.
Oorag TIL In 1942 some scientists theorized that detonating a nuclear bomb could produce such intense heat that it would cause a chain reaction which would set the atmosphere itself on fire, killing all life on Earth.
awVMJ TIL that the last fatal shark attack in the UK happened on the 1st of August 1956. A man by the name of Richard Kirby was killed by a shark whilst trying to kill a shark with explosives.