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TIL The Outback Way is a 2,700 km "shortcut" directly through the Australian Outback. Without it, the trip from Winton to Laverton would be over 4,000 kms.

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QNG8d TIL Iranian general Fathollah Minbashian was fired by Shah Pahlavi for being too resistant to foreign interests. After the Shah was overthrown, he offered to serve the new Islamic Republic, but they refused and ironically demanded that he report for the crime of collaborating with foreign powers.
9Z0X TIL George Washington vowed never to set foot on English soil — so when London’s National Gallery erected a statue of the president in 1921, the state of Virginia sent a ton of earth for him to stand on.
Dpne TIL That Dave Canturbury from “Dual Survival” was fired from the program for lying about his military background and survival training.
1aleX TIL: Wild Bill Hickok usually sat with his back to a wall so he could see the entrance of the building he was in. On his last day, when he went to play poker, the only seat available was one facing away from the door. He tried changing seats twice, but couldn’t. He was shot in the back of the head.
XpyP TIL In the winter of 1963-64, a team of FBI agents spent their days hunched over portable record players, struggling to decode a message that threatened the morality of America’s youth. It wasn’t from the Russians or Castro, but a band of white-bread Portland teenagers called The Kingsmen.