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TIL that abandoned buses from the U.S.A. are being used as public transportation in The Philippines by millions of people everyday.

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bQn4 TIL that Australia is as big as the continental United States of America
NY58 TIL that in 1893 geologist and explorer Major John Wesley Powell told the Los Angeles International Irrigation Congress, “Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.” He was booed out of the hall.
P1J5g TIL the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States is homicide
yQ61l TIL the bronze bull (or brazen bull) was a torture/execution bull-shaped device. The condemned were locked inside, fire set under, heating metal until they're roasted to death. An acoustic apparatus converted screams into the sound of a bull.
7p9r TIL that Sunandha Kumariratana, the Queen of Thailand, drowned while her subjects watched because they were forbidden to touch her.