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TIL about Dr. Mike Bingham, a conservationist who was fired for reporting an 80% penguin decline. He was harassed by the government, sued them for human rights abuses, and won in the Supreme Court.

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580D TIL that on Feb 14, 1916, a group of 15,000 Australian soldiers went on a drunken rampage through the streets of Sydney, hijacking trains and drinking pubs dry of beer.
PYXlw TIL The woman killed in the Gare Montparnasse accident was filling in for her husband at his newspaper stand
kXl7 TIL that John Morales, the performer who played McGruff the Crime Dog, was put behind bars after police found 1,000 pot plants and a grenade launcher in his possession.
GYmDg TIL in 1945 the Soviet Union invited top leaders of the Polish government in exile to Moscow under a promise of safe conduct to participate in talks on the post war government. Upon their arrival, they were instead arrested, tortured, and convicted in subsequent show trials as German collaborators
X4QD TIL Brown eyes are actually blue underneath the brown, and as a result there exists laser surgery to turn brown eyes blue