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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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nEY7 TIL Shaggy (from Scooby Doo) was often portrayed as a vegetarian, due to a request from his voice actor, Casey Kasem, who was also a Vegetarian
45Bo TIL that President Lincoln essentially bribed Congress to outlaw slavery by offering lame-duck congressmen cushy government jobs in a then-legal form of corruption known as the patronage system
e0Eg6 TIL that both Sting and Ray Liotta actually voiced their own characters in Bee Movie
16AkD TIL that its actually 3 hours earlier in west usa then in east usa so when its 12pm in new york city its 9am in las angelas
6EvQm TIL- Bees don't buzz during an eclipse - Using tiny microphones suspended among flowers, researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up to the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison.