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

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69YMZ TIL Davyon Johnson, an 11 year old boy from Muskogee, Oklahoma, saved a fellow student from choking and pulled a disabled woman from a burning house all in the same day. He got the key to the city as a reward.
5YxAD TIL that aircraft have a strong tendency to nose down as they approach supersonic speeds. It is called Mach Tuck and early planes lacked the ability to counter this and would enter uncontrollable dives.
e01MJ TIL Joe Jamail was a billionaire Texas attorney, infamous in legal circles for his aggressive nature and colorful vulgarities (i.e. "you could gag a maggot off a meat-wagon"). He earned internet notoriety for a deposition video where he tried to fight the opposing counsel and the witness.
0wo81 [TIL] Australia is the smallest continent on Earth. Oceania on the other hand is a region made up of thousands of islands in the South Pacific and is not a continent.
GAk71 TIL that Clint Eastwood - at the height of his "silent and violent gunslinger" fame - starred in a big-budget western musical called Paint Your Wagon. At nearly 3 hours long, the film was not well reviewed. Eastwood's song "I Talk to the Trees" was singled out for derision.