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TIL Indigenous Australians weren’t considered Australian citizens until 1967. Until this point they were listed as “fauna”.

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Bawb TIL the term bucket list is derived from the phrase kicking the bucket which is derived from the kicking of the bucket from under your feet as you hang yourself.
ANodo TIL A&E star Billy the Exterminator joined the Air Force at age 19 intent on a career in law enforcement; however, his military entrance examination indicated that he had an aptitude for biology, which lead to his extermination career at an Air Base.
RJ87 TIL German soldiers can disobey orders if they consider them to be inhumane
KYBAB TIL that most of modern Finland was underwater at the end of the last ice age. The weight of the ice had pushed the crust down, and the land is still rebounding. It would still have been an archipelago at the time of the founding of Jericho.
lovlB TIL upon arrival to the shores of occupied Southern France, the allies were greeted by a lone Frenchman giving out champagne