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TIL in the 1971 film “Wake In Fright”, a visitor is trapped in an Outback town awash with booze and depression. At a special screening a Australian audience member stood up and yelled “That’s not us!” to which a cast member yelled back “Sit down, mate. It is us.” The once-lost movie is on YouTube.

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R5ne8 TIL In the Battle of Kartarpur 1,800 Sikhs under Guru Hargobind fought an army of at least 52,000 Mughals who were led by an ex Sikh general, the governor of Peshwar, and governor of Jalandhar. The Sikh won and killed at least 50,000 Mughals.
W16A TIL that in 1986 an electronics store chain made good on its offer to sell stereos for “299 bananas” when customers turned up with the fruit as payment
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