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TIL The former capitol of Australia, Melbourne, was once called Batmania after it’s founder John Batman

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kLO4 TIL students from Johns Hopkins took advantage of their professor’s test curve by unanimously boycotting the final. They all received 100s.
6EGdm TIL of the Plum Island Pink House. The wife in a divorcing couple forced her ex-husband to build a replica of their family home as part of the divorce settlement. She didn’t specify the location, so he built it in the middle of a salt marsh and plumbed it solely with salt water. It’s uninhabitable.
jNWMQ TIL the reason why an Air Canada flight ran out of fuel mid flight in '83, NASA lost its Mars orbiter in '99, and a roller coaster car derailed on Space Mountain in '03 were due to confusion in working with both imperial and metric systems.
V8OQ TIL that there are white black bears, Kermode bears, also known as the “spirit bears” living in British Columbia in Canada.
yQaDe TIL A theory put forward by Thomas Loren Friedman states that two countries with Mcdonald have never been to war with each other due to the economic punishment it would get if it went to war. It's called the Golden Arches theory.