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TIL Australia has no national Bill of Rights making it the only democracy in the world with this limitation in their legal system.

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aw5V9 TIL that in 1923, a man petitioned to change his surname from Kabotchnik to Cabot. Several members of the Cabot family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Boston society, sued to stop him, but the judge ruled against them because there was “nothing in the law to prevent it.”
pY64p TIL that a group of owls is called a parliament of owls and a group of lemurs is called a conspiracy of lemurs
9YR9m TIL prior to the invention of photography, artists could not work out how horses legs moved in a gallop, this led to horses being incorrectly depicted in paintings.
7r95X TIL that jingle from the ice cream trucks is from 1902 by a African American, Scott Joplin called "The Entertainer"
WEDd TIL skyscrapers in downtown Toronto are air conditioned via frigid water pumped from the bottom of Lake Ontario, reducing electricity costs by 75%