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TIL about Australian voter suppression of First Nation peoples

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yrZV TIL that “Jake from State Farm” actually works at State Farm and his name is actually Jake.
PKZw TIL that Memphis, the #2 worst city in America, has the cleanest and sweetest water in the entire world; it is so clean that it is even used to make vaccines because it requires very little purification.
p8kmG TIL there's a hobby called magnet fishing where people use rare earth magnets attached to ropes and throw them into rivers and other bodies of water to pull up metal objects and they often find weapons
woYRY TIL a monk was killed in around 391 AD when he leapt into the arena to stop a gladiator fight, which led to the emperor issuing a ban on gladiator bouts throughout the Empire.
5Yb7p TIL that the priests in the ancient Nazca civilization had their skulls tightly wrapped between boards in their childhood to push the bones upwards, producing elongated craniums which made them look like aliens.