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TIL Australia once had a tumbleweed so large they named it "hairy panic"

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PYPdJ TIL James Bond was originally half Scottish half Swiss. Also Flemming named him after an ornithologist as it was the "simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name".
gMgKW TIL that the Nazis made a similar film to James Cameron's Titanic 54 years before he did as an attack on British and American capitalism
wG5P TIL the oldest bar in the Unites States is also where the British first referred to the US as a sovereign nation.
m1k7y TIL It was legal in texas to shoot a man in bed with your wife (adultery) until 1973! Justifiable homicide! Texas state law library, this statute was done away with in 1973. Article 1220 of the old texas penal code page is link provided as State Law Library's page won't link here. See 1st comment.
1kaD TIL that 30% of American adults use Facebook as their primary source of news