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TIL there were uncontacted Aboriginal Australians until 1984.

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RkZ4 TIL a Salvadoran consul saved up to 40,000 people from the Nazis by giving them fake identity papers. Barely anybody has heard of him.
69PZY TIL in the mid-1950s, Hiller aircraft constructed flying platforms for an army-navy program. The pilot simply leaned in the desired direction in the platform would follow.
GAVVj TIL about a Major League Baseball trading clause, a "player to be named later." Thanks to its ambiguous nature, four MLB players have actually been traded for themselves.
nlbP TIL that Rudolf Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on vegetable oil
M7ebA TIL of a laptop called the Persistence of Chaos which was sold for $1,345,000 in 2019 despite being unable to connect to the internet and being full of viruses.