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TIL that Australians are entitled by law to a repair/replace/refund on whatever they buy

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6917X TIL that one of Saint Nicholas' most renowned gifts was providing a destitute man with sufficient funds for each of his three daughters to receive a suitable dowry. This enabled the three girls to circumvent a life of prostitution to sustain themselves.
ZaBp TIL An Air Canada flight took a detour to find a stranded Australian yacht. The passengers of the Boeing 777 found the yacht only 25 minutes after the distress beacon was activated.
PYK7V TIL: A woman trying prove that she could scale Mount Everest while on a vegan diet died of altitude sickness
ANxK7 TIL the shortest-lived "empire" in history was a restoration of the Qing Dynasty of China lasting for 11 days in July 1917. Monarchists seized Beijing and reinstated Emperor Puyi, deposed five years prior and now eleven years old, on July 1 and were pushed back out by Republican forces on July 12.
Wk0YL TIL that Andre Geim won the parodistic Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.