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TIL Australia remained in the Stone Age until European contact in the 17th century.

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LQkv0 TIL in 2013, JCPenney sold a stainless steel tea kettle that attracted controversy due to its perceived resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
4X8Yg TIL that in physics, acceleration is the change in velocity(speed), jerk is the change in acceleration, jounce(snap) is the change in jerk, crackle is the change in jounce and pop is the change in crackle.
peWQ TIL that the “Galileo” space probe was intentionally crashed into Jupiter at the end of its operational life to avoid contaminating Jupiter’s moons with bacteria.
6Eonm TIL that the reason we refer to people as redheads instead of more accurately as “orangeheads” is because both the fruit and the word to describe its color doesn’t enter the English language until the 1300’s.
JlNl TIL that a politician in Japan was assassinated by yakuza shortly after he announced an investigation into millions of dollars of off-the-book spending. No other politican has resumed his investigation.