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TIL that Australia has an alternative to the Easter Bunny known as Easter Bilby

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Grr4 TIL Holland is only a province within the Netherlands,not another name for the country.
OG9y1 TIL that Thales, a greek philosopher who according to tradition was one of the first to predict an eclipse, thought that water was the most basic form of matter.
XX4E TIL to find interstellar life, one of the things astronomers look out for is a Dyson Sphere, a power plant which harnesses the power of its solar system’s sun by surrounding it with solar panels. It is theorized to be a logical necessity for a spacefaring civilization to sustain intergalactic travel
Wooo TIL States could make the minimum drinking age 18, but the Federal government would take away tax dollars given to them
W76wo TIL Nolan Bushnell, the inventor of Pong and founder of Atari, also founded another company: Chuck E. Cheese