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TIL that Aboriginal Australians often traveled to Indonesia for trade, and when British explorers first visited inland Australia they met an Aboriginal man who had already learned English from his visit to Singapore.

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47A6 TIL while working as maids Léa Papin and her sister Christine were found guilty of murdering their employer’s wife and daughter. Léa was given a reduced sentence of eight years due to good behaviour, and upon release moved to Nantes where she continued her livelihood as a hotel maid.
pbPp TIL that upon hearing his former Vice President John C. Calhoun’s talks of secession in the 1830’s, President Andrew Jackson said to him “…"if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.”
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