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TIL Australia fines citizens $55 for not voting

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5YMGP TIL the singer of Midnight Oil, most famous for the song Beds are Burning, has served as Minister for School Education and Minister for the Environment of Australia
epkyE TIL in 1986, John MacDougall, using the using the pseudonym "Captain Midnight", hijacked the HBO satellite signal in protest of HBO's rates for satellite owners.
PDAG TIL the United States sterilized over 60,000 people from 1907 to 1974 for being feeble-minded or an imbecile
4Xl7R Til that of all the Great Lakes, Lake Erie contains 2% of the water, but 50% of the fish.
bwd4 TIL that there is a three-digit-code on every egg carton that indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365