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TIL As soon as you create something, it is automatically protected under copyright in Australia. You don’t have to register for copyright protection.

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64O8 TIL During REM sleep, most of the body’s other muscles are stopped. Naturally reversible paralysis is a way to protect sleepers from injuring themselves by unconsciously acting out their dreams.
x647B TIL during WWI, Allied soldiers used glowworms as trench lamps, storing the bioluminescent insects in bottles for light. Their service was so helpful, they were honored in 2004 when Princess Anne unveiled a London memorial for animals and insects that aided the war effort.
78akX TIL: The jumping ant, or Harpegnathos saltator, lives in small colonies and when the queen dies, fighting erupts among workers, until a few prevail and become replacement queens, called gamergates.
W7ekA TIL It wasn't in Until the Indian Citizen Act (1924) that Native Americans had the right to vote
R7ka7 TIL of serial killer Mack Ray Edwards, a Caltrans subcontractor who would bury some of his victims under the highways he built. Not all the bodies of his victims have been found