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TIL Australia is the only country in the world to have significant net positive immigration with the US. That is, more people leave the US for Australia than vice versa.

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j6Eyp TIL that some of the earliest schools in Massachussets and Virginia in the 1640s were desegregated (Black students were taught alongside white students)
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vPNv8 TIL that many of the infamous "medieval" torture devices, like the Iron Maiden, were actually invented during the 18th and 19th centuries, not the Middle Ages.
GZE TIL that it takes the explosion of an atomic bomb to just detonate a hydrogen bomb.
b9o99 TIL Ethiopia is likely to be the birth place of modern Homo sapiens based on radioactive dating