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Zpvmp TIL Australia has no national Bill of Rights making it the only democracy in the world with this limitation in their legal system.
0D5p TIL the USSR promoted a pseudoscientific form of agriculture that rejected genetic heritability for political reasons. Up to 3000 scientists critical of Lysenkoism were imprisoned or killed for being “bourgeois”, fascist or anti-Marxist saboteurs
X051P TIL between 63rd and 76th Streets in New York City, scientists have found an ant species found nowhere else on Earth. They called him “ManhattAnt”.
dD8Z7 TIL that 67% of all fire departments in the United States are entirely or mostly staffed by volunteers
b6WPa TIL mines around Spruce Pine, North Carolina are the source of the world's purest form of silicon sand. A series of geological processes that occurred 350m years ago caused the silicon to form almost without impurities. It is highly sought after and is probably in the device you are reading this on.