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TIL Australia fought a war against their own Emus, and lost.

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w6nJ TIL malnutrition in North Korea is so common and widespread that it is not even considered a medical condition
ENPX TIL of the the Compromise of 1877, an unwritten deal that settled the controversial and disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. The deal gave ® Rutherford B. Hayes the last 20 electoral votes to win the election as long as he removed federal troops from the South
grR9 TIL that after becoming associated with the catchphrase “billions and billions,” Carl Sagan had a unit of measurement named after him. One sagan is equal to at least four billion, since the smallest number that may be described as “billions and billions” must be two billion plus two billion.
XEYbQ TIL that in 2004, a two-part short series aired titled The Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman, involving a fully animated Superman, voiced by Patrick Warburton, and Jerry Seinfeld in various mundane situations.
W7QVB TIL of socialite Ida Wood: in 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later