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TIL that Australia is the only continent outside of Antartica WITHOUT an established deer population.

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ne9Ob TIL Bill Withers, the singer song writer of "Aint no Sunshine" was a factory worker making airplane toilets when he wrote the hit song at age 31. After the song hit gold, the record company presented him with a gold toilet marking the start of his new career.
j6M8p TIL that archaeologists think that they’ve found the remains of Pliny the Elder, the author of the largest surviving Roman text, the encyclopedia called Naturalis Historia, who died trying to rescue people at Pompeii
e0OB4 TIL the British used to call mainland Europe "The Continent." As more continental European tourists travel to England and the Americas, they push for a breakfast of pastry, fruit, and coffee they normally eat. That is why hotels serve a "Continental Breakfast." Also because it's cheap.
mx7aP TIL the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is part of the Department of Commerce because President Nixon's Secretary of the Interior publicly criticized the administration's Vietnam War policy. Nixon punished him by putting the new agency under a different department.
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