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TIL it wasn't until 1967 that the Australian government gave Australian Aboriginal people citizenship

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xVoDg TIL 13-year-old called out the Eastern State Penitentiary for having the wrong radio on display in a recreation of Al Capone’s cell. The radio wasn’t available until 1942 and Capone was imprisoned from 1929-1930, resulting in the museum replacing it and giving the teen the inaccurate radio.
4kpO6 TIL about Claudette Colvin. Sheis an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.
6En8w TIL that standing near a Gympie-Gympie Tree can cause hives and nosebleeds, while touching one causes a severe pain "like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time." The pain can last up to two years.
drl7 TIL Milla Jovovich and Luc Besson developed the ‘divine language’ for the movie The Fifth Element. Both of them were fluent in it by the time the film production was finished.
XEeok TIL: Eggs from hens raised on pastures "contain twice as much vitamin E and long-chain omega-3 fats, 2.5-fold more total omega-3 fatty acids, and less than half the ratio of omega-6:omega-3 fatty acids" than eggs from commercial hens