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TIL of La Bougie du Sapeur - a French newspaper that is only published on leap day, February 29th. Since its founding in 1980, there have only been eleven issues.

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vdxB TIL “Oh Yeah! Cartoons” remains TV’s biggest animation development program ever, giving several dozen filmmakers the chance to create nearly 100 seven-minute cartoons. The series eventually yielded three dedicated half-hour spin-offs: The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone & My Life as a Teenage Robot.
KOJNR TIL Bullfighting was banned in Catalonia (Spain) in 2012, but the ban was annulled in 2016 for being unconstitutional by the highest court.
OokPe TIL the Nazi party had used the methods of the Turkish state as a standard to draw inspiration from. A Nazi publication of 1925 exalts the new Turkish state for its "cleansing" policy against the Greeks. Between 450,000–750,000 Greeks were killed during the 1923 genocide
9wyAG TIL that the first webcam was invented to check if a coffee pot was full. Cambridge scientists basically said, ‘Why walk 20 steps when we can invent new technology instead?’
l77K7 TIL of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.