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TIL Despite the entire animal kingdom in Australia trying to kill you, Australia has a rabies-free status

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jQ5Q TIL an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was proposed to change the country’s name to “the United States of Earth.” It did not pass.
QNMnd TIL the Sargasso Sea, located entirely in the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary on the planet.
8awya TIL the actor originally cast as Charlie in Charlie's Angels was drunk and couldn't record his lines. The show's creator called John Forsythe last minute, he recorded the lines for the first episode in the middle of the night, then went back to bed. He kept that role for 5 years.
NXZ5e TIL: Amongst the debris recovered following the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster were containers holding worms carried as part of an experiment. The nematode worms were found to have survived the accident.
BrgKk TIL in 1830 students at Yale revolted over the introduction of chalk boards