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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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wLXRY TIL About the rarest blood on Earth. In 49 years, Rhnull has only been known in 43 or so people around the world.
awYeA TIL that Diogenes "the Cynic" of Sinope, a controversial Greek philosopher, responded to Zeno's paradoxes on the impossibility of physical motion by getting up and walking away.
4XZEb TIL that ahead of the most recent papal election in 2013, bookmakers put the odds of Richard Dawkins being elected at 666-1, Bono at 1,000-1, Silvio Berlusconi at 2,500-1, and Lance Armstrong at 10,000-1
eMn5 TIL that Kyoto was originally at the top of the atomic bomb target list during WW2, but was personally removed by U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. He had previously been to Kyoto on his honeymoon.
e0gPD Contrary to long-standing theory, organized religion appeared long before cultures began adopting agriculture.