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TIL: Vladimir Lenin's body is preserved and on display

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rNDQe TIL that the Australian Senate is comprised of elected members who actively take part in legislation, whereas in other countries that use the Westminster system, e.g. the U.K. and Canada, the upper house of government is appointed and mostly just reviews bills that the lower house sends their way.
LkKVZ TIL that 119 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt "shocked the nation" by inviting a black man to have dinner with him at the White House. That man was Booker T Washington and that dinner almost got him killed.
N7g4P TIL Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet pledged their financial support the last living Titanic survivor, Millvinia Dean, after it was reported that she’d been forced to sell her mementos from the wreck to pay for nursing home bills.
78AQZ TIL of the Isochrone Curve - a shape with unique properties. If you drop two balls along the curve at different points, they will reach the midpoint at exactly the same time.
Y7exA TIL during the Falklands War the British Navy mistook whales for submarines and torpedoed them, killing three