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TIL that a 9 year old Australian girl refused to stand for the national anthem because she feels it's disrespectful to indigenous population, and people are calling for her to be kicked out of school.

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j59R TIL in the 70s the US tapped an underwater comm line located between two USSR harbors using navy divers deployed from a submarine. Submarines returned with divers every month to retrieve the tapes, and The soviets never found out despite having a network of sonar sensors!
MXVA TIL that a canine POW name Judy protected her fellow inmates from beatings by attacking the guards. Sentenced to death for bad behavior, Judy hid out in the jungles of Sumatra and supplemented her diet with snakes and monkeys. After the war she was awarded the Dicken Medal for bravery.
v1414 TIL of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, an American businessman who died when the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, after giving his lifejacket to a young mother and her baby. He knew that he could not swim and that there were no other lifeboats available at the time. His body was never recovered.
m1RKx TIL Burlington, Ontario closes a section of King Road for annual migration of the Jefferson salamander.
ja6X TIL that Concorde was so manoeuvrable, you could barrel roll it, and so fast, you could watch the sun set in London and watch it rise again in the West as you flew to New York