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TIL in 1975, the representative of Queen Elizabeth II dismissed the Australian Prime Minister from office

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PpkL TIL Matt Groening named the Simpsons family after his father Homer, mother Marge, and sister Lisa. Bart was an anagram of the word brat.
4kgna TIL on Nov. 17, 1968, with only 50 seconds left, the television broadcast cut out abruptly from a game between the NFL's Jets and the Oakland Raiders to make way for “Heidi,” a made-for-TV children’s movie about a Swiss orphan.
8anNL TIL The "California Route" to the summit of Mt Fitz Roy in Patagonia was first climbed in 1968 by five American hippies who called themselves The Fun Hogs. One of them later founded Patagonia (originally called Chouinard, his last name), and another founded The North Face (in '64).
6ELGW TIL a gallon of gas typically costs no more than a few pennies in Venezuela.
6EnM7 TIL that Billy the pygmy hippo was the pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, outlived him by 23 years, and sired 18 children all named Gumdrop