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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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ywDV TIL that when Rivers Cuomo, the lead singer of Weezer, returned to university at Harvard, he wrote in his diary that kids wearing Weezer T-Shirts would never recognize him.
X0DvR TIL that E.T. was voiced by an actress named Pat Welsh, who was a raspy voiced chain smoker and only appeared in three films in her life. Her other famous voice role? Leia’s Boushh disguise in Return of the Jedi.
ANoZo TIL that McDonalds redesigned their McFlurry cups because hedgehogs used to get stuck in them, and die.
P65V TIL During WWII, when he realised his guns had malfunctioned, an RAF pilot prevented a German bomber from bombing Buckingham Palace by cutting the German plane in half with the wing of his Hawker Hurricane.
y4Ja TIL: Jesus’ name translated from Hebrew to English would be ‘Joshua’. We get the name 'Jesus’ by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English.