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

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neG0d TIL Reading in dreams is impossible because reading and dreaming belong to different parts of the brain, which don't cooperate while dreaming.
neRM9 TIL a full-on naval battle was fought in Lake Erie between the US and Britain
epvpn TIL in 2016 two teens died after ingesting a concoction known as 'Dewshine' (a mixture of Mountain Dew & racing fuel, which is virtually 100% methanol). These are the first reported deaths in the US associated with the mixture. Two other teens who also drank it became intoxicated, but survived.
JYRMm TIL that Jerry Sigel, the creator of Superman, was Jewish, and that the Superman story is full of Jewish metaphor.
EgmG7 TIL: At the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941, Hawaii was not legally a part of the Union as one of the then-48 officially recognized states (along with Alaska). The territories of AK & HI did not join the United States until 1959, only 65 years ago.