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TIL: Australian senate introduced "It's OK to be White" in their parliament two years ago.

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W7JoB TIL in 1968, a man tried to scare his ex-fiancée who left him for an acquaintance by detonating luggage on a Yokosuka line train. He accidentally killed one, injured 14, and was sentenced to death.
lpv5 TIL that the vagina was named after the Latin word for “scabbard”, reflecting it’s function of holding a man’s sword
R5We6 TIL on the 5th May 1862 Mexican forces defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla, giving rise to the Cinco de Mayo celebrations.
egrk TIL the State of Mississippi borrowed $7 million from creditors in England to issue bonds for the creation of two state-owned banks, and rather than repay the debt, Mississippi amended its constitution to prohibit repayment in its entirety.
Wk4A4 TIL Archimedes's cattle problem, a 2 millenium-old poem containing an arithmetical problem which involves computing the number of cattle the sun god's herd, was discovered in 1773. It took 107 years for it to be solved. The answer was 7.76x10^206544, more cattle than could fit in the universe.