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TIL in Australia there is a parlimentary position called The Shadow Minister of Justice, and it is currently held by the representative from the electorate of Batman

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16WWP TIL that Pennsylvania once had Moose, Cougars, and a few other animals that use to call this patch of land home.
NO0E TIL that in 1969, Willie Nelson ran into a burning house to save his guitar, and a pound of Cannabis.
nWPoY TIL 'ea' in Hawaiian means 'life, air, breath, sovereignty, rural, independence'. In 1843, when the Hawaiian Kingdom regained sovereignty from Britain, King Kamehameha III proclaimed, ‘Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono,’ which translates to ‘the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.’
V6ZB TIL of a Jewish man who escaped Germany in 1938 at age 13 and returned in 1945 as a U.S. Military Intelligence officer charged with hunting escaped Nazis and proving that Hitler was dead. In the process he tracked down a dozen SS officers and discovered Hitler’s Last Will and Testament.
ANlE4 TIL that over 98% of Ohio's puppy mills are run by the Amish, as are 97% of Indiana's, and 63% of Pennsylvania's.