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TIL all Australians are legally entitled to a free portrait of the Queen

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l7GYV TIL Viruses called Pandoraviruses and some bacteria, were found frozen in 30,000-year-old permafrost (ground that is continually frozen) in Siberia. In 2016 there was an anthrax outbreak in Siberia that killed one person and many animals. It’s thought that permafrost melting exposed the bacteria.
v1K4R TIL that when the Phrygians were without a king, an oracle at Telmessos decreed that the next man to enter the city driving an oxcart should become their king. An unsuspecting peasant farmer named Gordias drove into town on an oxcart and was immediately declared king.
yQgV8 TIL children not only recognize race from a very young age, but also develop racial biases by ages three to five that do not necessarily resemble the racial attitudes of adults in their lives.
X0eYr TIL in 1972, Joanne Pierce Misko, a former nun and teacher, was one of the first two women to become an FBI agent.
Rb4 TIL a gun can fire in space because gunpowder contains its own oxidizer.