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TIL Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent [source: my toilet paper, then verified via Google]

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m49v TIL a well-known hacker fired from Valve claims the company’s flat management structure actually has “a hidden layer of powerful management… with a weird paranoia that their culture would be contaminated”
kBBW TIL that by some estimates, there is over 70 million years’ worth of salt 1,200 feet beneath the city of Detroit.
e0XP6 TIL that Fans of Mass Effect trolled Bioware by sending them 400 cupcakes with the message "The cakes are vanilla, and so is all the icing... no matter what choice you make, it'll all have the same generic flavor."
7DB7 TIL a stroke suffering cat owner tried to teach his cat to press a 911 speed dial. Unsure whether the training stuck, the owner later fell from his wheel chair during a seizure. Police received a silent 911 call from the house and arrived to find the man incapacitated and the cat by the phone.
LkE6v TIL in Hitler's Germany, the government would give badges to "mothers who exhibited probity, exemplary motherhood, and who conceived and raised at least four or more children in the role of a parent". The highest class is a Gold Cross, for eligible mothers with eight or more children.