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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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4XblN TIL of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, also known as Black Moses, who lead thousands of freed slaves from the South to colony towns in Kansas. These black migrants fleeing the South were known as Exodusters, named for the book Exodus in the Bible.
nvLP TIL Wikitravel specifically warns visitors to Kazakhstan not to mention Borat.
WLeA TIL that China harvests the organs of people whom it considers “enemies of the state” sometimes while the victims are still alive and sells the organs on the black market.
0w46p TIL that 8 months after Sacagawea's death, William Clark (from the explorer duo Lewis & Clark) adopted her 2 children.
m1vAp TIL that A UK High Court judge ruled in 2005 that it would be illegal for the British Museum to return artworks looted by the Nazis to a Jewish family, despite its willingness and moral obligation to do so. However, the law has changed since.