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TIL Australia has never had a civil war, but was on the brink of one in 1932

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W7dvL TIL pseudoscorpions are a thing
Lpym TIL a poor African American washer woman saved up over $250,000 over her lifetime, then gave most of it away to start a scholarship fund for young black students.
wopp1 TIL of one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities with buildings around 1000 years old in the United States which predates European settlement
OGMR7 TIL Steven Spielberg filmed both Jurassic Park and Schindler's List in the same year, 1993. For help, Spielberg asked George Lucas to finish post production sound on Jurassic Park and the film won best sound at the Academy Awards.
RZE6 TIL of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, who, during a 6 hour spacewalk on the ISS, nearly became the first man to drown in space when his helmet began to inexplicably fill with water.