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TIL That Australia has 31% of the worlds uranium supply.
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TIL as a child raised in South Carolina, US political comedienne Stephen Colbert observed that Southerners were often depicted as being less intelligent than other characters on scripted television; to avoid that stereotype, he taught himself to imitate the speech of American news anchors.
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TIL that during Winterfest 2013 Cleveland commemorated the 30th anniversary of "A Christmas Story" with an enormous leg lamp lit onto the side of the Terminal Tower on Public Square, where the movie was partly filmed.
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TIL The Pollyanna Principle, named after the cheerful character in Eleanor H. Porter's novel, is the tendency for people to remember pleasant history more accurately than unpleasant history. The principle is the basis of nostalgia, remembering past experiences as more rosy than in reality.
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TIL about Marinos Mitralexis, a Greek WW2 pilot who downed an Italian bomber by ramming when out of ammo, made an emergency landing and arrested the surviving bomber crew with his pistol.
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TIL that there is a Japanese family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1300 years.