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TIL about 20% of Australians are descendants of convicts.

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pY85e TIL, the reason for many serial Killers "having three names", such as John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Lee Harvey Oswald, is actually a convention of media reporting, under the assumption that by using the middle name people with the same first and last name will not be misidentified as the killer.
4Xjlg TIL the earliest known version of the Coca-Cola recipe was developed out of a cocktail of morphine and toxins being used by a wounded former Confederate soldier who had become addicted to painkillers
eYJ5 TIL that NASA has 2 satellites chasing each other around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitacional anomalies. Their nicknames are “Tom” and “Jerry”.
WVMo TIL that the English word ‘assassin’ comes from the Arabic 'hashashin,’ or “hashish-eater,” the name of an 11th century Muslim sect that would intoxicate themselves with hashish before killing a person of public standing
Rw61 TIL when Johnny Cash realized his record label of 30 years was not properly marketing him, he recorded an intentionally awful song called “Chicken in Black” about his brain being transplanted into a chicken, as a protest. It turned out to be a bigger success than any of his other recent material