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TIL in 2009 the Australian Government gave almost everyone $1,000 cash as an economic stimulus.

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MePya TIL that the Director's commentary on Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story introduces extra characters and half way through switches to the Director's commentary from There's Something About Mary.
x6PX7 TIL of incense clocks that tell time with fire. They were used in China since at least 6 AD. Some even could trigger alarms by burning through threads holding metal balls and causing them to fall, or used scented chips so you could tell time with a sniff
BPje TIL that it was an Oracle Sales Rep who stormed the cockpit of flight 93 with his last words “Let’s Roll”
Aa84 TIL that in 1985, 39 Juventus fans died in the Heysel stadium just before the start of the European Cup Final. After some debate, organizers decided to celebrate the game anyway. The players, unaware of the disaster, playd the final while the corpses were still visible in the stands
1aWGr TIL despite the title of the 1990 novel and 1993 movie "Jurassic Park", most of the dinosaurs depicted in these sources were from the Cretaceous period, not Jurassic.