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TIL the Australian flag flown over Parliament House in Canberra weighs 49 pounds (22kgs)

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yP58 TIL that the Emancipation Proclamation applied only to slaves in Confederate states. Union-friendly border states and southern regions under Union control continued to practice slavery.
7XO7 TIL that Doctors once worried about ‘elevator sickness,’ caused by the sudden movement of one’s organs inside the body when an elevator came to a halting stop
NXgMN TIL of the 21 demands. Demands made during WW1 from Japan to China which effectively puppets it. China leaked it to the US and UK who pressured successfully for Japan to drop the most extreme demand.
DRXP TIL that a judge used pictures from a botched execution using the electrical chair to convince the state of Florida to not use that method anymore for executions.
6ryW TIL that the only ship left in the US Navy that has sunk an enemy ship is 218 years old