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TIL the official demonym for someone from the state of Indiana is “Hoosier”.

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neOx7 TIL about Edward St John, an Australian politician who threw away his political career in his maiden speech in 1967 when he took the opportunity to criticise his own party in order to restore the honour of a Naval Officer wrongly censured after a collision at sea.
wLVkY TIL the largest living thing on earth is a humongous fungus
9Yoap TIL that in 1928, deep in the Brazilian jungle, Henry Ford built a city nearly the size of Connecticut called Fordlândia. It would last until 1934 when it was abandoned. Its remains are still visible today.
awRrN TIL Almost 500 years ago, an African man Yasuke arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior and the only black person to achieve this status.
nnMd TIL it is illegal to sell alcohol on Thanksgiving day in Massachusetts and North Dakota.