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TIL that Australia has never had a passenger jet crash. Military jets, firefighting jets, prop driven passenger planes have crashed - but never a single jet, either in Australia or an Australian operator elsewhere.

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yQv0v TIL That the name "Soccer" is actually British in origin.
4rpN TIL in Netherlands, there is an actual word for whipping out one’s penis and hitting something with it. And in 2008, it was voted word of the year.
BYYy TIL That elderly people in Britain get a free TV licence so that their TV can act as a companion and reduce loneliness
bpjN TIL the inside of a cucumber can be 20 degrees cooler than outside - ‘cool as a cucumber’.
WkmWd TIL White-tailed Eagles kept flying into moving turbine blades at the Smøla wind farm in Norway. An experiment of painting a single blade black on each of two turbines compared to two unpainted turbines found that the bird deaths declined by 70%.