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TIL that Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Australia

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Z8kgR TIL that Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, John Cage, Miles Davis, the Everly Brothers, Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett and Edith Piaf all worked with the same producer - George Avakian - in the 1950s and 1960s.
0dMgL TIL that Salvador Dali's famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" was only about the size of a sheet of office paper.
0rJy TIL that horses can lose over a gallon of blood when they get a nosebleed.