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TIL Australia's largest cattle ranch is slightly larger that Israel.

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A7bo TIL A Native Canadian Tribe has successfully blocked Shell’s oil tar sands expansion with treaty protections signed in 1899
ANOR4 TIL that EU citizen can demand a copy of all personal data that companies hold about them. However, most Android and iPhone apps completely ignore this right, a study has found.
6KwZ TIL of the aphorism Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness”.
6OWw TIL that Joseph Stalin was only 5'3" (163 cm) in height.
rRkvy TIL Eric Tigerstedt, the "Thomas Edison of Finland", was the first person to patent a "mobile phone", over a 100 years ago.