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TIL that Australia's Constitution allows New Zealand to join as Australia's 7th state at any time

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k5p1 TIL that hurricanes and cyclones cannot cross the equator.
eApD TIL A college student wrote against seat belt laws, saying they are “intrusions on individual liberties” and that he won’t wear one. He died in a car crash, and his 2 passengers survived because they were wearing seat belts.
PvyG Today I learned about the Mobile Bay Jubilee, a recurring natural phenomenon found in only one spot on the whole world. Roughly once a year, thousands of crab, shrimp, eels and fish will leave deeper waters to swarm onto the shallower coastal waters, due to oxygen suffocation
yDVM TIL the Mexican Song “La Cucaracha” is about a cockroach that died because it didn’t have marijuana to smoke.
e0w0g TIL cardinal birds are romantic; they mate for life, travel together, sing before nesting, and during courtship, the male feeds seed to the female beak-to-beak.