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TIL In 2000, John Ashcroft, a former Bush cabinet member, lost a Missouri Senate race to Mel Carnahan, despite Carnahan’s death two weeks prior.

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D1wjv TIL Australia has a talking clock called George and if you dial 1194 you will get the exact time in your area. Have a go fellow Australian, this service is going to be cancelled on October 1 after serving the Australian public for 60 years!
RZE6 TIL of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, who, during a 6 hour spacewalk on the ISS, nearly became the first man to drown in space when his helmet began to inexplicably fill with water.
1W8W TIL the “most succinct” world in any language is “mamihlapinatapai” and means the “unspoken and private moments shared in public where each party is fully aware of what the other is non-verbally expressing but is otherwise unwilling to vocally suggest or offer the thought.”
v1m87 TIL that the human-like behaviour of Jenny (an orangutan), a resident of London Zoo, reinforced Charles Darwin's view that man was descended from animals.
9YbpB TIL that in 2002, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone made Bengali an honrary Official Language in recognition of the efforts made by Bangladeshi Soldiers in keeping peace during the Civil War.