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TIL - Thailand is currently ruled by a military junta, they’ve had, on average, a coup d’état every seven years since 1932

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jYYM TIL There’s a service called “Cleaning for a reason” in the U.S. and Canada that cleans the houses of women with cancer for free so they can focus on their health.
68GW TIL that upon his death, pirate Olivier Levasseur had tossed a cryptogram into a crowd and told them if they could figure out the message, his treasure (now valued at $200,000,000) would be theirs, a treasure that to this day has never been found.
WajL TIL Charles Darwin collected a Galápagos tortoise during his 1835 visit to the Galápagos Islands as part of his round-the-world survey expedition. It lived 175 years and died of heart failure at the Australia Zoo in 2006.
4WNJ TIL Australia has a tradition called “democracy sausage” where poll workers have a sausage sizzle outside the polling place
e1o6 TIL in 2006 British historian David Erving was sentenced to 3 years in prison for denying the Holocaust in a speech he gave in 1989.