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

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OGVY1 TIL in 1996 Björk had a stalker who mailed her a letter bomb rigged with sulfuric acid, before filming his own suicide by shotgun. Police found the tape and intercepted the package before it arrived.
4XKl6 TIL that Benjamin Lay, an early Quaker abolitionist, walked into the 1738 annual meeting of Quakers and during an abolition speech plunged a sword into a bible he had hollowed out and filled with a bladder full of red fruit juice. To horrified onlookers, the Bible appeared to be bleeding.
X0EWr TIL: In 1990s, some Chinese villages grew economically by widespread selling of blood, leading to many HIV deaths
grKND TIL that even if King Charles III had an older sister, he still would have been first in line to the throne; male-preference primogeniture wasn't changed to absolute primogeniture until the 2011 Perth Agreement.
K7m6 TIL at the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.