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TIL the US and Australia are geographically almost the same size

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5YrMQ TIL the dartboard layout was designed by Brian Gamlin in 1896 and is organized to encourage accuracy, and is mathematically considered nearly perfect. Also Gamlin died at age 44, with no actual record of his death.
nej0d TIL in 1832 after the death of philosopher Jeremy Bentham his body was preserved and displayed in the University College London, however his preserved head was henceforth placed in secure storage after it was stolen by several students and found in a luggage locker at a Scottish railway station.
j41R TIL Philip Morris launched the Marlboro brand in 1924 as a woman’s cigarette.
Oo5BX TIL That honeybees are not native to North America. They were were introduced by European Colonists in 1622.
4X4B6 TIL snails have blue blood due to the lack of iron, they used copper instead to transport oxygen.