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TIL Antarctica was originally called Australia, and Australia’s original name is New Holland

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16aRD TIL that the distance of Earth from the Sun is about 108 times the diameter of the Sun. Likewise, the distance between the Earth and the Moon is also about 108 times the diameter of the Moon.
b6g10 TIL that Sigmund Freud in 1935, the founder of psychoanalysis, refused to "treat" homosexuality, stating that it could not be classified as an illness
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