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

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NYme TIL that in 1993, an Indian airplane was hijacked at forced to land in Amritsar. Indian army Commandos then conducted an operation which killed 3 hijackers within 12 seconds, without any civilian casualties
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rN1PM TIL King Orodes of Parthia abdicated in favour of his son Phraates IV, who consolidated his reign by promptly murdering his father and thirty of his brothers.
VNo4 TIL The Gell-Mann Effect is when we believe everything the media tells us except for anything for which we have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong.