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TIL that Indigenous Australians took up smoking several decades before European colonisation.

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wL8XM TIL every year divers replace the White Ensign on the wreck of HMS Royal Oak
wpm7 TIL that it takes as low as 3 months to educate a Police Officer in the U.S., compared to 3 years in Norway and Finland
GAJEQ TIL that Timbaland plagiarized "Acidjazzed Evening" - a chiptune style track composed by Janne Sunni, to create the pop song "Do It". While he admitted to sampling, Timbaland did not believe his usage constituted 'stealing' and called the allegations 'ridiculous'.
G6KJ TIL A Chemistry Ph.D. student turned her thesis into a comic so that her friends and family could understand it better.
QNK1L TIL that the best-selling video game of all time goes to the classic known as Tetris. IGN says 520 million copies of Tetris have been sold, citing data from The Tetris Company.