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TIL that In Kazakhstan, the children’s TV show the Teletubbies was banned by personal order of the president on the grounds that Tinky Winky “was a sexual pervert"

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ep6j4 TIL The Federal Reserve Bank in NYC contains the most gold bars in the world (400 billion USD) and lies 80 feet below street level in Manhattan. No human being has been successful at breaking into its vaults.
ZpmYa TIL that two hurricanes can merge sometimes forming a larger, stronger hurricane. It's called the "Fujiwhara effect."
R5d74 TIL that Winston Churchill loved cats, while Adolph Hitler was said to despise them.
DQemg TIL Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans), famous for the early 60's song and dance craze "The Twist", got his stage name from Dick Clark's wife as play on the name of another popular musician at the time Fats Domino.
VMJ0Z TIL that in 1961 two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina when the US bomber carrying them broke up in midair. Although neither detonated, one of the bombs was fully armed and it is unknown to this day why it failed. Each bomb had 250 times the destructive power of the one used at Hiroshima.