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TIL that Australia is considered the defamation capital of the world.

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XapP TIL we typically do not start to think of foods as “too sweet” until our bone growth stops. Younger children have virtually no limit to the amount of sugar they find palatable.
OwVX TIL there is a long history of US Vice Presidents disliking the job. John Adams called it “the most insignificant office… contrived,” FDR’s Vice President Garner called it “not worth a bucket of warm piss,” and Truman joking Vice Presidents were “about as useful as a cow’s fifth teat.”
JYW6k TIL that the Mars 2020 rover will have a solar powered helicopter rover buddy
y0op TIL that during the Berlin Blockade in 1948 a pilot who was doing supply drops for the civilians became known as ‘Uncle Wiggly Wings’ after he started dropping candy and chocolate from his plane and wiggling his wings so people knew it was him.
wjM7 TIL - there is a rarely seen room in The Simpsons home. The Rumpus Room (picture in comments)