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TIL Frank Sinatra was once trapped in Australia by a country-wide strike, in response to the singer's horrible behavior

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v1eDx TIL that over 10% of Canada’s population are descended from impoverished British children that were sent to work on Canadian farms between 1869 and 1939.
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