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TIL that Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Australia

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py84 TIL Scooby-Doo was a triplet who had five brothers total and one sister. His sister is the mother of his nephew, Scrappy-Doo.
nW5w9 TIL about a 1980 oil drilling disaster in Louisiana that drained the state's largest freshwater lake into a salt mine
BgmwL TIL, from 1941-1943, over 40 thousand Spanish soldiers fought on the Eastern in the Blue Division, a volunteer division made entirely of Spanish soldiers. They partook in several major battles, most notably the Siege of Leningrad
0w471 TIL "Blah Blah Blah" saying came from Ancient Greece. The term was "bar bar bar". Taken from the same root as barbarian, it implied the words beings spoken were "meaningless noises",
jNBbR TIL that there exists a competitive sport which combines boxing with a game of chess every other round.