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TIL That Australia Was The Third Country to Successfully Launch A Satellite Into Orbit

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J1Xg8 TIL that Muhammad Ali was officially knocked down four times in his ring career.
4XGRN TIL the Washington Monument was the tallest structure in the world upon it's completion in 1884 until it was eclipsed in height by the Eiffel Tower in 1889
v1gG8 TIL that when an animatronic langur infant was used to film wild langurs, the monkeys adopted it--until it was eventually dropped and ceased movement, at which point the monkeys believed it had died and gathered together to mourn the dead infant
OGl17 TIL of Springerle, a detailed south German biscuit that used Ammonium carbonate as a leavening agent.
NX6L6 TIL that Canada has the only island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world, as well as the only lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake in the world.