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TIL South Australia is the only place in the world where a flavoured milk drink outsells Coca-Cola by triple the amount

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J1ya4 TIL that the singer of Toto is the son of John Williams (composer for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, etc)
R0Z7 TIL that the United States is one of only three countries (along with Somalia and South Sudan) that have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
xVGEg TIL that to avoid releasing the Watergate tapes to prosecutors, Nixon proposed that Democratic Senator John C. Stennis alone be able to listen to them. Stennis was both notoriously hard-of-hearing and heavily drugged after being shot earlier in the year. The offer was quickly rejected.
4kK5g TIL jurists in certain countries of Africa formerly colonized by the British still wear white, old-fashioned judicial wigs
mxRJM TIL that the studio recording "Jordan" by Buckethead was allegedly done in an unbroken, continuous take.