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TIL that Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Australia

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E15rP TIL that all Hass avocados throughout the entire world are from grafted seedlings propagated from a single avocado tree that grew in the back yard of Rudolph Hass in California in 1926.
Qpoe TIL: Four out of six Marlboro Men died died of smoking-related diseases, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname “Cowboy killers”
yVej8 TIL beavers have felled trees 145 ft tall and nearly 4 ft in diameter and the largest known dam is 2,790 ft long
jNxpR TIL Napoleon was the greatest general in human history, according to a detailed quantitative analysis in 2017 that was inspired by baseball sabermetrics.
epkL5 TIL: That following the solar eclipse of August 11 1999, the BMJ reported only 14 cases of eye damage from improper viewing of the eclipse, a number lower than initially feared. In one of the most serious cases the patient had looked at the Sun without eye protection for 20 minutes.