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TIL Sydney, Australia has an annual duck fashion show :)

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b68QN TIL that harvard is named after it's first benefactor. JOHN HARVARD, a clergyman who assumed the role of a minister in colonial new england. his deathbed bequest to 'schoale or colledge' is so gratefully received that masachusetts bay colony ordered the college to be bamed after him.
VMAAZ TIL that descendants of slaves continued to pay, via their taxes, for the freedom of their ancestors until 2015, when the British government finally paid off the 1833 loan that was used to buy freedom for all slaves in the British Empire.
wopAo TIL that Murong Xi, emperor of the Later Yan dynasty of China during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, had sexual intercourse with the corpse of his deceased wife.
9YrkM TIL that if you were born after October 31 2000 there has been someone living in space continuously for your entire life.
neRx7 TIL that a very large telescope in Chili is officially called “the Very Large Telescope.”