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TIL that Australia's Constitution allows New Zealand to join as Australia's Seventh State.

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R7rE4 TIL that every South Korean president living today has either been jailed or is in prison now.
47R5 TIL Captain Hazelwood was widely portrayed as as a drunk captain who steered the Exxon Valdez aground in 1989. He was in his berth at the time of the collision, the drug test with his name was mishandled, and a search of the ship only turned up two beer bottles.
j6MXR TIL that English women were banned from playing football on Football Association affiliated fields for almost 50 years due to the belief that the sport threatened their health and morality
oQrr TIL some animals like frogs and lizards have a third eye, a very small grey oval between their two regular eyes, which functions as a photoreceptor connected directly to the pineal gland to tell their brain when it is day or night while the regular eyes are closed
gMlDy TIL In 1944, a Finnish soldier escaping the Russian Army took 30x the dosage of methamphetamines designed to keep soldiers awake. He managed to ski 250 miles surviving on only a raw bird and some pine buds, and when he got to hospital a week later his heart rate was 200BPM.