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TIL there is no such thing as a private beach in Australia. All land that the high tide touches is owned by the Crown - and therefore public land - even if erosion moves the high tide mark inland.

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epxV6 TIL that the White House Police ceremonial uniforms worn under Nixon were described as looking like band uniforms by the press and some ended up going to a high school band in Iowa.
epEng TIL: In 2018, Samsung had a historic "Fat-Finger" error where it accidentally gave every employee $9 million worth of shares in the company. The total amount distributed was $100billion more than 30x their market cap. Within 37minutes, 16 employees sold and the stock tanked 11%.
vPNVB TIL Johnny Cash is the only recording artist ever to be inducted in each of these eight music-related halls of fame: Songwriters (1977), Nashville Songwriters (1977), Country Music (1980), Rock n' Roll (1992), Rockabilly (1999), Hit Parade (2007), Gospel Music (2011) and Memphis Music (2013).
Lk4bv TIL that about a quarter of women in the desert nation of Mauritania are obese because of a beauty standard that finds overweight women attractive. Slim women are viewed as sickly and in some rural areas young girls are force fed to make them look more desirable to men.
4kKXb TIL: a man named Ranald MacDonald was the first native English speaker to teach the English language in Japan. Today, statues commemorate Ronald McDonald all throughout Japan.