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TIL the Australian constitution technically allows for the disenfranchisement of voters based on race

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7rP1x TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax".
Yp0k7 TIL: ‘Arabic’ numerals are actually Indian. They’re called Arabic numerals because Arab traders introduced them, not because Arabs invented them.
6EJBX TIL There was a mega tsunami in Alaska in 2015. It was triggered by a landslide and the resulting wave was almost 200 meters tall at its highest. It struck an uninhabited area with no people present and went unnoticed for several hours until scientists in New York noticed it on seismograph readings
kONWe TIL about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, where polish jews made a suicidal last stamd against the German army in opposition to being deported
b9pj TIL This is the first known painting by Salvador Dali. Which he painted when he was SIX years old.