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TIL Australia has snow, ski resorts, the Australian Alps and a higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden.

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9RPB TIL that John Tyler, 10th President of the United States, was actually elected by Virginians to the Confederate Congress. When he died he became the only President to be buried under the flag of a foreign nation.
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