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TIL that Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Australia
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TIL that Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller did a “penny behind the ear trick” for television while having brain surgery. Teller had him remain conscious so that he could see the penny after Teller produced it and say it was the one he marked. The resulting footage was too disturbing to be aired.
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TIL about Agloe, New York. A fake town created by a US map company as a copyright trap that became real when a man put a general store there and named it after the name he saw on the map. The map company learned about this right when they sued a competitor for plagiarism and thus lost the case.
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TIL that a single lake (Lake Baikal) holds one fifth of the world’s unfrozen fresh water; more than all the great lakes combined, yet it covers half the area of Lake Michigan. It is both the deepest (1 mile) and oldest (25 million years) lake in the world.
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TIL the US has poor voter turnout as a percent of voting-age population (55.7%), but excellent voter turnout as as percent of those registered to vote (86.8%)
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TIL a woman with her daughter tried to board a plane from Berlin to Manchester with her dead husband in a wheel chair in order to avoid the fees associated with transporting a corpse. She claimed that, “he always sleeps like that,” when authorities asked about his slouched appearance.