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TIL that despite being green the South West Wilderness of Tasmania, Australia is completely uninhabited

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1N0W TIL that an armored SUV could not protect US agents in Mexico during an ambush because the doors unlocked when the vehicle was put in park .
XA1X TIL that Pythagoras believed that ‘So long as men slaughter animals they won’t stop killing each other.’
KYbmR TIL Otto frank, Ann Frank's father died in 1980. Which means he lived to see the Moon Landing.
R7wK1 TIL that the Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave uprising
nako TIL that a ‘micromort’ is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries (for example, going skydiving is 7 micromorts, meaning that there is a 7/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip)