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TIL of the 'Battle of Brisbane' (1942), a standoff between American soldiers and Australian citizens leading to one death and hundreds of injured on both sides. The reports were censored to preserve wartime morale.

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9YKpB TIL Saturn spins so quickly on its axis that the planet flattens itself out into an oblate spheroid. Seriously, you see this by eye when you look at a picture of Saturn; it looks like it was squished. It’s the rapid spinning that’s squishing it, making the equator bulge.
E0lW TIL the President of Ecuador offered to let the US keep an airbase in his country, but only if Ecuador could have a base in Miami.
Wk1xo TIL that the Ancient Greeks considered gold to be a particularly dense combination of water and sunlight since most of it was found glinting in streams.
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