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TIL The only military coup that ever took place in Australia, was over a dispute regarding rum.

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mdjP TIL that mobile phones often have two completely different phone numbers attached to them which are both usable. One is the one you think your number is and the other is called an Mobile Identification Number (MIN), a number your carrier uses to ID you.
45lR TIL There are only roughly 23,000 African lions left. There were roughly 300,000 in 1998
8av48 TIL of "chicken shit bingo", a weekly event at the Little Longhorn Saloon in Austin Texas. Participants purchase a ticket which corresponds to a random number on the table. If the chicken poops on your number you win a cash prize.
WkZjN TIL The Uto-Aztecan language family, to which the ancient and modern Aztec languages belong, was historically so widespread beyond the Aztec Empire that the language family has speakers as far north as Idaho
Mej0K TIL A Canadian officer named Ward Clapham created a program that gives 'positive tickets' to people who do good deeds. Positive Ticket uplifting citations were given to teens and children for free coupons for pizza and ice cream just for obeying the law and putting safety first.