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TIL in Australia, “Black Friday” refers to a series of bushfires that wiped out whole towns and killed 71 people

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D1xle TIL That Sir Winston Churchill, at the hight of the Beatlemania, ended his parliamentary career that had begun before the Wright brothers' pioneering flight and had ended in an age when supersonic aircraft could deliver nuclear weapons. (1900-1964)
Z8KGD TIL that Bill Gates released a swarm of (not infectious) mosquitoes at a TED Talk to demonstrate that even if malaria doesn’t infect people directly, they should still care
GYJeE TIL Plato attempted to describe how the world came into being in his dialogue "Timaeus". Plato first argues that since the sensible world “is always becoming and is never real,” it must have come to be, and therefore must have a cause. This cause he calls “the maker and father of the universe”
l6x5 TIL: If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels
ADVk4 TIL that the United States had laws against cross dressing which were enforced well into the 1970s.