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TIL That you will be fined in Australia if you do not vote.

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b6Bep TIL it was so difficult for the FBi to believe Hitler had committed suicide that they funded a secret program by millions of dollars to find him, with the program being shut down only in 1947
x6bO1 TIL the Big Bang theory was discovered by a Catholic Priest
Ldy9 TIL: In the 1900’s, the U.S. Navy became suspicious of homosexual activity in their sailors. They hired gay “decoys” to flirt with and find the homosexual seaman on board. However, the decoys became so popular that the Navy eventually just decided to stop..
R5knj TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina only uses the letters A, E, O, J, K, M and T in its vehicle registration plates because it uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, and these letters are written and pronounced identically in both. The same plates can therefore be used in every region.
WaR9 TIL of “Reichstag fire”, a term used to denote a calamitous event staged by a political movement, orchestrated in a way that casts blame on their opponents, causing the opponents to be viewed with suspicion by the public. The Reichstag fire was seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.