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TIL about 20% of Australians are descendants of convicts.

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QNpra TIL that Afife Jale, the first Muslim woman to appear on a Turkish stage, had to be smuggled out of theaters through machine rooms during police raids. Despite being a pioneer, she was treated as a criminal, lost her job due to her religion, and spent her final years in a mental institution
Bxje TIL the odds of getting the Boardwalk piece in the McDonald’s Monopoly is 1 in 602,490,060. The odds of finding Park Place are 1 in 11.
EAwW TIL that when the D-Day forces landed, Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared send re-enforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him.
LQ0k0 TIL That The Darwin's Bark Spider can build a 2 metre orb web with a silk that ranks as the world's toughest natural fibre and can shoot web at 25 meters of distance.
XEG1E TIL Dung Beetles navigate via the Milky Way, the first known species to do so in the animal kingdom