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TIL the first and last Australian torchbearers for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were Nova Peris & Cathy Freeman, who are both Aboriginal women, both Olympic gold medalists, both holders of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and were both previously awarded Young Australian of the Year.
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TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.
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TIL about the Great Attractor which it was previously thought the Milky Way was moving towards at 1,342,162 mph, but now the Great Atractor AND the Milky Way are both moving towards Shapely Supercluster. Observation of these areas is blocked by the Milky Way for the next 100 million years.
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TIL cryptomnesia is an implicit memory phenomenon in which people mistakenly believe that a current thought or idea is a product of their own mind when, in truth, they have encountered it previously and then misremembered it. It’s also referred to as inadvertent or unconscious plagiarism
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TIL Ttongsul is a traditional medicinal wine with 9% alcohol content. It is made with 70% boiled non-glutinous rice, 30% glutinous rice and yeast, blended with the previously fermented poop of a 4-7 year old child. The smell and visual appearance of this drink are worse than its actual taste
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