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TIL Cats have whiskers on their front legs
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TIL Edith Cowan, best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament, lived a life of tragedy as a child. Her mother died when she was seven. At the age of 15, her father, Kenneth Brown, was executed for the murder of her stepmother, making her an orphan.
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TIL: America spends $34mil a year of taxpayer money to broadcast TV and radio to Cuba from Miami, FL. These broadcasts reach less than 1% of Cuba’s 11million residents. Broadcasted signals are jammed regularly by the Cuban government.
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TIL the Ozone layer is healing and is expected to do a full recovery by 2060.
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TIL that even though we remember Nixon as a terrible president for Watergate, he was actually tremendously popular, and in his second election won 49 of the 50 states.
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TIL in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium-filled balloons to a lawn chair and took flight to a height of 16,000 feet. He did so because he was denied entry in the US Air Force due to poor eyesight.