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TIL that Steve Irwin's papa declined a state funeral for his child since in words of his son, he was an "regular bloke".

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jn4n TIL lab researchers have been able to manipulate specific memories using beams of laser light, creating, deleting, and altering emotional content: positive memories have been rendered negative and vice-versa.
mbpE TIL that US President Grover Cleveland bought a baby carriage for a child who would later become his wife.
WNmY TIL slain American activist Rachel Corrie’s parents sued Israel for a symbolic one U.S. dollar in damages to make the point that their case was about justice for their daughter. In 2012, an Israeli court rejected their suit.
Oo8AX TIL Warner Brothers shut down an entire publisher that they owned and destroyed almost all their stock, just to prevent Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman from publishing a book critical of US foreign policy
5RZR TIL The coastline of Japan is one of the longest in the world, outranking that of Australia and the US. (Japan - 18,486 mi., Australia - 16,006 mi., US - 12,380 mi.)