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TIL that until a referendum in 1967, Aboriginal Australians were not considered human beings - they were instead classified under the Flora & Fauna Act.

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p8yop TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was a millionaire before he came to America, thanks to his business degree. He participated in bodybuilding (and later became an actor) as hobbies.
8aYB8 TIL: In 2006, the FBI came up with a terror plot involving "full scale ground war" taking out the Sears Tower. The 7 convicted never had any contact with Al Qaeda, never acquired weapons, explosives or formed actual plans & whole plot was thought up by the FBI informant. From 7-13 years prison.
VGJp TIL that when former president Teddy Roosevelt died in his sleep in 1919, Thomas R. Marshall, the sitting vice-president, said “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.”
kQd7 TIL that Devil’s Tower was the US’s first National Monument and that Geologists are still uncertain about exactly how it was formed.
E14a7 TIL Joesph Bramah stared a lock company that was famed for their resistance to lock picking. The company had a “Challenge Lock” where they would pay whoever could pick the lock 200 guineas. The challenge stood for 67 years until Alfred Hobbs finally picked it in 51 hours, spread over 16 days.