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TIL Australians use nearly twice as much coal per person than Americans and five times as much as the rest of the world.

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VBnKQ TIL Laconia incident during WWII. A U-boat sank RMS Laconia mistaking it for a Supply vessel horrified, the Germans tried helping survivors, but Allies attacked, leading to the "Laconia Order" restricting aid to survivors.
10w4 TIL Claudette Colvin was the actually first African-American woman to refuse to move to the back of the bus nine months before Rosa Parks did, but the NAACP did not want to use her to represent the movement as she was 15 years old and pregnant.
1a0bX TIL that a flock of ravens can be called an Unkindness because they are often associated with bad luck and are trickster animals in mythology
m0ov TIL, Neil Armstrong used to tell unfunny jokes about the Moon, and follow them up with “Ah, I guess you had to be there.”
W766d TIL with the names on the Stanley Cup being engraved by hand, there are roughly 16 spelling mistakes on it. While some of the misspellings have been corrected, others remain.