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TIL it is illegal in Australia for a minor to purchase plastic knives

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jNWXn TIL Legend says Alexander the Great used an ancient submarine "bathysphere" to survey the underwater sea. What he saw horrified him: "the world is damned and lost".
PYjYw TIL that a 2.85m statue of former President Bush stands in an Albanian town to show appreciation for US-led NATO airstrikes in 1999
l7VPK TIL that Scatman by Scatman John isn’t about a shit fetish from some disreputable guy named John, but actually about a jazz vocal style called scat singing, which uses improvised nonsense syllables.
wL591 TIL Bill Lawrence, creator of scrubs, created the character Kevin Casey specifically for Michael J. Fox to cover up his Parkinson’s disease. Casey’s OCD diagnosis ensured Fox’s Parkinsonian side effects would not affect his performance. Fox gained plaudits for his accurate depiction of OCD.
n8PY TIL that there are people in Kenema,Sierra Leone, africa. that think EBOLA is a hoax created by Doctors to steal blood from patients and rioters are trying to break down the hospital gates and rescue the patients inside. police are using tear gas and live bullets to disperse the rioters