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TIL that in Australia, "seppo" is often used as a derogatory term for an American.

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Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.
G9J1 TIL killer whales know that great white sharks need to move to breath, and will hold them upside down in order to kill them.
ewYL TIL that the original Gettysburg address was a disaster: no one expected Lincoln to show up, he wasn’t the key speaker, and the reaction from the audience was so muted that he considered the speech a failure
pYJap TIL Pope Leo XIII awarded a Vatican gold medal to the creator of his favourite brand of cocaine-infused wine and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.
0GL5 TIL there’s a drug named Orexin-A which effectively eliminates sleep deprivation and has no negative side-effects. It also ups your arousal.