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TIL that restaurants cannot turn on the volume if there are sports playing on the television - sports bars who do pay an extra licence fee.

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QNr5E TIL that Ethiopia has a unique calendar which is 7-8 years behind the rest of the world. The current year in Ethiopia is 2017.
grVlD TIL in the 1980s, parents were upset at a Seattle firm about phone bill charges after a half-hour show featuring Santa told children to hold the telephone up to the TV whereupon touch-tone sounds would dial a 1-900 number. A spokesman said this was to prevent children from dialing the wrong number.
oZoA TIL that closing down sweatshops often leads to a subsequent surge in child prostitution
R6pl TIL Roger Taylor was so fond of his song “I’m in Love with My Car” that he urged Freddie Mercury to allow it to be the B-side to “Bohemian Rhapsody”, to the point where he locked himself in a cupboard until Mercury agreed. The song ended up generating equal royalties just because it was the B-side.
6Z7 TIL Robert Louis Stevenson gave away his birthday when he was finished with it to a 12 year old girl who was born on Christmas.