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TIL that after Indonesia left the UN in 1965, President Sukarno attempted to organise a rival org called the 'Conference of the New Emerging Forces' (CONEFO), made up of other states that lacked UN representation such as Mainland China, North Korea and North Vietnam

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v1L1D TIL R2D2 was controlled by a man inside its body; Kenneth George Baker was an English actor and musician. He portrayed the character R2-D2 in the Star Wars franchise and also appeared in The Elephant Man, Time Bandits, Willow, Flash Gordon, Amadeus and Labyrinth.
5VlwD TIL Platypuses are biofluorescent with a research study in 2020 finding that they glow bluish-green when exposed to a black light.
yQMop TIL the tale generally considered to be the first detective story is Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," in 1841. The story describes the extraordinary analytical power used by Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin to solve a series of murders in Paris.
R5vEj TIL that in Italy it's the Great Watermelon, not the Great Pumpkin, because it sounds better ("Il Grande Cocomero") and they didn't know about Halloween there.
M708K TIL about the "Trivers-Willard hypothesis", a special case of which is that "beautiful people have more daughters"