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BrJ7x TIL Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.
b9nxE TIL the deadliest disease outbreak in human history originated in the USA in the early 1900s and killed up to 100 million people worldwide. News of the outbreak went largely unreported due to the Sedition Act and an effort to “keep up morale.”
wpyE TIL Mark Twain despised Jane Austen and was quoted as saying: “Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”
NXb7M TIL of Jean-Simon Bibeau, the longest portrayer of any mascot in any professional sport. He portrayed Youppi! for the Montreal Expos from 1988-1990 and the Montreal Canadiens from 2003 to the present day
wLYy6 TIL the city of Kyoto was originally the primary target of the atomic bombs in 1945, but was removed by the insistence of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who went there on a honeymoon and admired the city deeply.