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TIL that the Australian military has never fought a human opponent on Australian soil.

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VBmA0 TIL when making the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1976 album "Animals," a 12-meter large inflatable pig broke loose and floated over Heathrow, causing flights to be canceled. The pig eventually landed in a farmer's field in Kent, scaring the cows.
7vJp TIL of Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie & Marie Dionne, the first quintuplets to have survived their infancy. Instant celebrities, they were taken from their parents by the Canadian government, who raised them for the first 9 years of their lives in a major tourist attraction known as “Quintland”
D7aV TIL that Rick Moranis was fired from the set of The Breakfast Club after he kept playing the janitor as a goofy Russian character
GA1AN TIL that Cher is often credited as the first artist to use auto-tune in a song with her 1998 hit "Believe"
n65o TIL that on Oct. 4, 2013 a man named John Constantino, a former Vietnam Vet self-immolated on the National Mall seemingly to protest the Federal government during “the shutdown,” but later the story was redacted to emphasize that he had been battling mental illness.