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TIL Australia routinely (and ironically) denies entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record.

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JkKk TIL inner speech can clock in at 4,000 words per minute, 10X faster than verbal speech.
R5alj TIL In 1950s, Toyota made their first car called the Toyopet Crown, then they made the Corona and Corolla in the 1960s, which means "Crown" and "Little Crown" in Latin, then they made the Camry which means "Crown" in Japanese, and the car that became the foundation of Lexus is called the Crown RS.
GYeG5 TIL On May 14th, the Catholic church commemorates Saint Corona, patron saint of pandemics...
Jy5j TIL the whiptail lizard is an all female species, the males have gone completely extinct. They’re not hermaphroditic, the females actually lay, and hatch from unfertilized eggs
r7Lo TIL: That in 1996 The New York Times crossword correctly used either candidate of the presidential election as the answer to who would be elected the next day!