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TIL Long term Labour Party Leader and former Australian Prime Minister Robert (Bob) Hawke was a CIA asset. Regularly informing to the USA and secretly promoting things like the ANZUS Treaty whilst leader of the Australian Unions

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QpW9 TIL… there is a banana plantation in Iceland, just 177 miles from the Arctic Circle
GY88g TIL about the unusual phenomenon of "exploding trees." The trees explode when water in the tree's sap freezes. As the liquid hardens, it expands, eventually bursting the trees open emitting a gunshot-like pop. The exploding trees often bring down others with them, resulting in major damage.
woEPW TIL Tom Cruise's name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
rRPmW TIL that English and American Suffragettes, in attempt to create attention to their cause, terrorized golf courses. They swapped hole flags, ambushed players like the Prime Minister and Winston Churchill, and wrote "Votes for Women," "Votes or War," "No votes, no golf" on the green by using Acid.
mx49p TIL that in Avatar: The Last Airbender, "The Boulder" was voiced by WWE Legend Mick Foley, after they were unable to get The Rock, who the "The Boulder" was based on.