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TIL that when Australia celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first European settlement in 1938, officials tried to hide the fact that it was a prison colony by using the terms “transportees” or “deportees” instead of “convicts”

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Z8KvR TIL about the cookiecutter shark. The name refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine life, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies!
VQE4 TIL Sioux and Cheyenne Native Americans defeated the 7th Cavalry in the Battle of the Little Bighorn 138 years ago today
rN5mw TIL Prior to human settlement New Zealand had no land-based mammals apart from three bat species
rRgRw TIL that "Will it Blend?" was started as a marketing plan after the founder was found stress testing his blenders with two by fours…
WkZKB TIL that Betty White, despite being the last surviving Golden Girl, was older than her costars Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, and Rue McClanahan.