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TIL: People will be prohibited from climbing Australia's iconic Ayer's Rock, aka Uluru, from October 2019.

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R7LM4 TIL of the Sewee, a Native American tribe who in 1670 decided to build a navy and sail en masse to England. Their canoes were swamped and survivors sold to slavery in the West Indies, wiping out the tribe.
eMp5 TIL that LSD was first synthesized in 1938 but it wasn’t until 5 years later that it’s creator accidentally consumed it, discovering its hallucinogenic properties.
N7Jve TIL 67% of prisoners in India have not had a trial due largely in part to the 25+ million backlogged cases. It is estimated that with the current amount of judges it would take at least 12 years to clear the pending cases.
Oog6X TIL that there is a Starbucks in CIA headquarters and the baristas are not allowed to ask for names
LQlvP TIL of Amelio Robles Ávila, a colonel who fought in the Mexican Revolution. Assigned female at birth (in 1889), he adopted a male identity from the age of 24 and lived openly as a man until his death at age 95.