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TIL that Midnight Oil's landmark hit 'Beds Are Burning' was written to criticise the forced removal of Aboriginal Peoples from their ancestral lands.

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6EPaJ TIL crows in urban Japan and the United States have innovated a technique to crack hard-shelled nuts by dropping them onto crosswalks and letting them be run over and cracked by cars. Then they retrieve the cracked nuts when the cars are stopped at the red light.
8eaVL TIL that cats try to manipulate us by meowing in a way that sounds like a baby crying.
bPmE TIL the oldest U.S. airline to never have a fatal accident and still offer free meals in coach class during interstate flights is Hawaiian Airlines.
8exyV TIL that The Great Attractor. In the realm of cosmic mysteries, it is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space that reveals the existence of a localized concentration of mass tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Milky Way. It's pulling galaxies towards it, including our own.
9ogM TIL The samurai scene in Kill Bill where The Bride fights against the Crazy 88 was so bloody that the MPAA wanted director Quentin Tarantino to cut it in order to maintain an R rating. To get around it, he altered the colors in the scene to black and white.