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TIL that Australia's Parliamentary Entitlements Act 1990 entitles ALL Australians to a free portrait of the Queen

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4kOV5 TIL that the official bird of Redondo Beach, California, is the Goodyear Blimp
Rvlj TIL Theodore Roosevelt became blind in one eye from an injury suffered during a boxing match, while he was still in office
46Ng TIL that in 1917, a bank in Utah was built using 80,000 bricks mailed via USPS in 50-pound packages to save on freight costs.
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