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TIL That the Australian consitution is written to allow New Zealand to become a state at any time

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gpWX TIL that 17-year-old California teen, Max Wade, stole Guy Fieri’s $200,000 Lamborghini from a San Francisco car dealership by rappelling down from the roof and driving out the front door.
W7OR9 TIL The last "Civil War Widow," Helen Viola Jackson, lived until 2020. Jackson was married to James Bolin, a 93-year-old Civil War veteran, at the age of seventeen and died just four years ago at the age of 101.
8XeG TIL Theodore Roosevelt killed over 11,400 animals on his expedition to Africa, it took over 8 years for the Smithsonian to catalog all of them.
rN4N1 TIL the City of Inglewood was predominately white up until the 1960s. It was also a "sundown town," where signs were posted warning blacks that they weren't welcome in town after dark. Homes were even sold with restrictive covenants legally forbidding selling to black families.
kaEm TIL that 80 % of all cars in Kabul (Afghanistan) are Toyota Corollas