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TIL Britons have to pay $230 for a “television license” every year as a tax to support the BBC

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6ELwm TIL that that from 1986-1993, Christmas M&Ms had imprinted images of candles, bells, and pine trees, while Easter M&Ms had images of bunnies, chicks, and eggs! Then they were all replaced by the simple M (except for special orders which came along later)
D11bY TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant pretending to be a radical Muslim in a mosque, and the Muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI.
4Xv9R TIL despite movies and television, never put a raw steak or other raw meat on a black eye. The bacteria on raw meat poses a high risk of infection, and this method of treating a black eye has no scientific basis.
NEZN TIL Joy Division’s iconic “Unknown Pleasures” album image is a representation of the radio signals from the first reading of a pulsar in 1967
worGo TIL that the extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels