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TIL about Australian voter suppression of First Nation peoples

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D1N1g TIL Ireland has finally reached its population level from the Great Famine. So Ireland as a whole finally has the same amount of people it had 170 years ago.
Od1 TIL that finding pennies is considered good luck because years ago people thought that finding metal was a gift from the Gods and meant to protect you from evil.
jnXE TIL Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the first modern apocalyptic disaster novel in 1826, describing a group of people living around the year 2100 when a worldwide plague wipes out most of humanity.
nWgyW TIL "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy was one of Michael Jackson's favorite songs. When he met Shaggy, he told him it sounded like a song he would write, which prompted Shaggy to quip, "So you be bangin', huh?"
KBQR TIL that Tokyo is protected from floods by a massive underground system of tunnels and water tanks, with 14000hp turbines that can pump 200 tons of water per second