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eoLD TIL in 2014 an election candidate was arrested in the UK for inciting hatred after reading verbatim a quote by Winston Churchill
5YgDD TIL that there is one character owned by both Marvel and DC, named Access, whose sole purpose is to keep both universes separate
p5oQ TIL a sailor who wishes to grow a beard in the Royal Navy has to submit a ‘permission to stop shaving’ form. He is then allowed two weeks to ‘grow a full set’ before he presents himself to the Master at Arms who will decide if his beard looks stupid or is respectably full enough to be permitted.
70kZ TIL there is a traffic light in Germany that has been red for 28 years
xVM5k TIL since the 1950s, every baseball in an MLB game has to be rubbed with mud harvested from a secret location, and the same family has been doing it for three generations