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TIL Even though Australia’s signed all 5 treaties that make up the the International Bill of Human Rights, none of these treaties are legally binding in Australia. They are the only Western democratic country without a constitutional bill of rights to protect the rights and freedoms of its citizens.

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YpPmZ TIL there's an instrument that makes the horror/suspense noises in some movies and video games
6EAB8 TIL that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke a creole language associated with the descendants of slaves called Gullah as his first-language and that his relative silence on the Court is due in part to self-consciousness from being teased about the way he spoke as a child in rural Georgia.
500Q TIL that it was Freddie Mercury’s dying wish for “Bohemian Rhapsody” to be reissued in order to raise money for AIDS charities. When the song was rereleased in late 1991, it topped the charts, staying at #1 for five weeks for the first time since its debut in 1975.
W7xlA TIL in 2019, a hand-drawn cel depicting the twin towers from the classic Simpsons episode “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson”, was given to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in what the curator termed a "hilarious and tender" donation.
neOx7 TIL about Edward St John, an Australian politician who threw away his political career in his maiden speech in 1967 when he took the opportunity to criticise his own party in order to restore the honour of a Naval Officer wrongly censured after a collision at sea.