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TIL of Australia's 1975 constitutional crisis, in which the Prime Minister was removed from power by the Governor-General (representing the Crown in Australia) without an election

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oPPr TIL that the universe is an estimated 1.4 x 10^27 meters wide. There was an attempt to make 1.0 x10^27 one “Hellameter.” So it could be said that the universe was “Hella meters wide.”
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