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TIL British soldiers went to war with native New Zealanders because the natives chopped down a flagpole on a British base. 3 Times.

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7reYM TIL the ancient myths of Australian Aborigines portray the formation of geographical features in Australia, dating to 10,000 BC, with striking accuracy. The myths corroborate modern geological evidence, indicating they originated as firsthand accounts, preserved for millennia.
xVrO0 TIL about the Mount Rushmore of Romania, the Rock sculpture of Decebalus carved between 1994-2004
x6vX0 TIL the Danish city of Aabenraa, the first city listed alphabetically on earth, refused to change its name after the Danish Language Board changed Danish spelling standards in the 1940s/50s because in Danish, ‘Å’ is the last letter of the alphabet
wLKR8 TIL of sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd who created customized prosthetic masks to be worn by men who had been badly disfigured in World War I and was knighted for her work by the French Government.
woPb6 Today I learned that floaters in your vision aren’t bits of dust stuck on your iris but they are actually inside your fucking eyeball