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TIL there are officially 65,486 Jedi in Australia

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Eg8VP TIL that UGG and UGG since 1974 aren’t the same company. The shoes we have been buying in the USA all these years aren’t even made in Australia, and are not created by the original company.
ZpX1G TIL The British Columbia Parliament Building has a secret dining room guarded by security guards where members of the public must turn in a driver’s license for security pass and go through a coded door
M4DB TIL Leif Erikson, a Viking, and the first known European explorer of North America, called the large landmass south of Newfoundland as ‘Irland it Mikla’ or 'Greater Ireland’.
J18wl TIL; John Madden was offered unlimited stock to the first Madden NFL video game but declined and later called it "the dumbest thing (he) ever did in (his) life." It has sold over 130 million copies.
grMY9 TIL Brazilians don't believe that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Instead, they believe that Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumond, was the true inventor.