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TIL that the Principality of Hutt River, a micronation in Australia founded in 1970, operated with its own currency and passports for 50 years before dissolving in 2020 due to financial issues and tax disputes.

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NEKb TIL that around this time of year (passover) every year, Coca Cola makes kosher for passover coke that uses real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup (noticeable by the yellow cap). it tastes better than regular coke and costs more to manufacture which is why they don’t make it year round.
YkpW TIL that birds can actually see the earth’s magnetic field and use it like the head’s-up display in airplanes
8aYOV Today I learned that the Icelandic band Sigur Ros felt so strongly that music was more than words they made up their own language for one of their albums.
VBpkQ TIL multiple times in the 1980s a man named John Suter competed in the Iditarod dogsledding race with a team of poodles.
dDaV8 TIL the first scientific specimen of the world's largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, was collected "with the aid of a small shotgun"