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TIL that Australia's "Aged Dependent Relative Visa", where a person applies for their aging foreign parents to migrate to Australia, has an approximate 50 year waiting period and costs $6,100, making it virtually impossible to actually qualify.

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9m6p TIL that the US Air Force is the only branch of US military to ever directly fight the USSR. The conflict occurred over the Serbian town of Niš during WWII. Both sides mistook each other as Germans and both sides classified all reports of the battle as Top Secret.
a84gM TIL Oppenheimer attempted to poison his tutor with cyanide
jNKjN TIL that Peter Mahew portrayed the character Chewbacca from the Star Wars films for nearly 40 years, from 1977 to 2015. Chewbacca was nearly 200 years old in the films and was inspired by George Lucas' dog.
7g9p TIL that Glenn Burke was not only the first openly gay major league baseball player, but is also credited with inventing the high five in 1977