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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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RXV1 TIL the the Civil War cost 620,000 American lives, more than this country’s other wars combined, from the Revolution through Vietnam. That was about 2% of the population; if it happened now, historians estimate, the equivalent number of dead would total 6 million.
GrWG TIL A team from Norway and other Scandinavian countries made a viking ship from scratch using viking technology and sailed to North America to prove that the Vikings could do it, and they did!
QJ7ra TIL that a 500 page book contains only 0.53 calories
Y7awv TIL when canada switched to metric in the 70s, containers had to switch from gallons to liters. Milk producers chose to switch to bags to avoid making cartons/jugs.
O9xR TIL that in 2003 the U.S. Government forcibly seized some 500 horses from two elderly Western Shoshone women on the grounds that they were grazing and destroying “public land”, they later found vast deposits of gold, phosphates, and geothermal energy and are now power mining to extract the gold