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TIL that outside of the US, when an English speaking government "tables" a proposal, it means they are putting it up for consideration. In the US it means the exact opposite: putting it away, no longer considering it.

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grZG7 TIL the studio behind the movie Se7en proposed a sequel called "Ei8ht" where a suddenly psychic Morgan Freeman chases an also psychic serial killer. The idea was dropped after director David Fincher replied, "I would be less interested in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes."
7rwMM TIL a 4-yr-old captive beluga whale who'd been living with belugas moved to a dolphinarium where her only companions were dolphins. In her early days with the dolphins, she made beluga "contact calls." Within 2 months, the beluga imitated dolphin whistles & dropped the beluga calls altogether.
EVb0 TIL that medieval English longbows could fire an arrow more than 300 yards and required so much strength that the skeletons of medieval archers can by identified by their enlarged left arms.
OoDNX TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
N7ZMQ TIL In 1982 video game company, Mystique, released a game called Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600. The game received immediate backlash because the player controlled the character George Custer, sporting a visible erection, whose main goal was to find and "abuse" native women tied to poles.