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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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Br4pD TIL that both the penny and the nickel cost more to make than they're worth, and that up to 1982 the metal in a penny was worth more than the penny itself.
9YJWQ TIL of Australia's pyjama girl mystery: an unidentified murdered woman's body was on public exhibition in a vat of formalin many years for identification. Ten years later the husband confessed to killing her - he was once a waiter at the detective's regular restaurant who he had known many years
wLN41 (TIL) Toyota cheated so brilliantly it was applauded by rule makers (the FIA or International Automobile Federation). If this had not happened, then we wouldn’t have seen the iconic Colin McRae victory in a Subaru that sparked a whole other generation of competition.
jB1a TIL Bipolar disorder may have been a climatic adaptation for humans to survive short summers (manic episodes for high productivity) and long winters (depression to slow metabolism).
YpbGW TIL fish can be 'right handed.' When hunting or being hunted, fish typically have a side for attack or direction to turn when chased. 'left handed' fish may find themselves separated from the school by a sudden turn when chased by predators.