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TIL There is no guaranteed freedom of speech in Australia

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VBwvG TIL Redfoo’s solo album, "Party Rock Mansion" sold only 144 copies on its debut in Australia.
xPR0 TIL Experian, the credit reporting agency, sells your personal information to other companies.
DQn4v TIL by simply paying off the Mexican Navy, bucheros, or the local illegal fisherman, have reduced the smallest dolphin in the world, vaquita marina, to a number of 8. Many believe the animal is just a myth.
R5ZO6 TIL Camp Century was an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland, it consisted of 21 tunnels through ice, with a total length of 9,800 feet (3.0 km) and was powered by a nuclear reactor
OGaNe TIL in the 1900s, the United States Radium Corporation employed women to paint watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. The women were encouraged to put the paintbrushes in their mouths, leading to many developing fatal illnesses from ingesting radium.