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

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PB8g Til that Pakistan puts nuclear warheads in unmarked vans and drives them around the country in a never ending road trim to “keep them safe.”
GY8Jj TIL seven journalists were the pallbearers for Lee Harvey Oswald because no mourners were on hand except for his immediate family.
9YkYp TIL that a library in Portugal unleashes a swarm of bats every night to combat book-damaging pests.
Wk5xX TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster
PYewJ TIL Lincoln originally invited Ulysses S. Grant and his wife to the Ford Theater. Grant accepted, but later backed out because their wives' hated each other. If Grant had gone, his security detail would likely have prevented Lincoln's assassination.