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Today I Learned Volume 002

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yQ1QV TIL every Australian state has only one large city and the majority of every state lives in those cities.
7rpWL TIL of Stoffel—a Honey Badger in a South African wildlife center who’s escaped his enclosure twice to fight the lions in the exhibit beside his, built towers out of rocks and sticks to climb over his wall, and, when introduced with a mate, stood on her head to unlock the gate and get out once again.
kOQe5 TIL as recently as 1990, single digit phone numbers existed in the UK
dD5WB TIL in Nevada, the ballot has included "None of These Candidates" since 1976, giving voters a unique way to protest their choices. It can’t win an election, but in 2014, it received more votes than a major-party candidate in a statewide race, allowing voters to express their dissatisfaction.
wEpo TIL there has existed, since 1997, a patent for a supposed cure for AIDS, patent #5676977.