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TIL Malaria used to be endemic to Australia, but was eradicated in 1981

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Evb7 TIL by 1580, a syphilis outbreak in Europe left most people bald. A surge of wigmaking sparked the trend of powdered wigs which lasted for almost 200 years.
8a9o4 TIL that the voting age in Brazil is 16 and voting is mandatory for all literate people from 18 to 70
xVAD7 TIL that the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century was Novarupta, in Alaska in 1912. The eruption lasted for 60 hours and created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Due to its remoteness, the eruption did not kill anyone.
W5lX TIL a common Shrew’s metabolism is so high, it could starve to death in mere hours
b40Q TIL that “the world’s oldest toilet” is a 240 million year old site where certain dinosaurs communally shat.