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TIL that Australia is as big as the continental United States of America

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1aRwD TIL The orange carrot was first cultivated in the Netherlands in the 16th century. Prior to this, all carrots known to the world were white, yellow and purple varieties.
epQRg TIL about the Eliza Armstrong case where journalist W.T. Stead bought a 13-year-old girl to expose sexual slavery in Victorian England. His reports helped pass the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act raising the age of consent from 13 to 16, but Stead was jailed three months for abduction.
xVA95 TIL the US military's Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can project speech narrowly enough to be heard by a single person 300m away. American soldiers in Iraq used the device to speak directly to specific insurgents, claiming to be the voice of God and ordering their surrender
5Y4v9 TIL that The Sopranos and Goodfellas shared 27 different actors
awmyZ TIL that chimpanzees are thought to use the plant Aspilia as herbal medicine.