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TIL Australia had a white people only policy until the 1970s
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TIL that the Lyre bird imitates its surroundings in song, including mechanical noises
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TIL: If the sun was scaled to the size of basketball; Mercury would be the size of a grain of sand-33 feet away, Earth would be the size of a BB shot-86 feet away, Jupiter would be the size of a gumball-445 feet away, and the nearest star would be another basketball-5000 miles away!
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TIL that in 2017 it was revealed that UN peacekeepers operated a child sex ring in Haiti for over 10 years and no one went to jail
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TIL that when 13-year-old Ryan White got AIDS from a blood donor in 1984, he was banned from returning to school by a petition signed by 117 parents. An auction was held to keep him out, a newspaper supporting him got death threats, and his family left town when a gun was fired through their window.
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TIL: the tv series Flipper only ran for 3 seasons, but made 88 episodes.