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TIL The biggest fine awarded by UK's Ofcom was for part of a radio show called Sweary Hangman, in which a 9 year old girl was prompted to repeat the phrase 'soapy tit wank' 3 times

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gMLZD TIL Radioactive steel accidentally contaminated with Cobolt-60 was used to build hundreds of apartments in Taiwan in 1980, that were occupied for 20 years, and some studies show beneficial outcomes from the exposure.
MA0W TIL unarmed citizen crime patrollers called the Guardian Angels - set up to fight subway crime in NYC in 1979 - faked incidents with “muggers” and “rapists” in order to gain publicity.
o8Wr TIL in 1960 the heir to the Coors beer fortune was abducted and murdered
kOOkB TIL "grawlixes" are typographical symbols standing in for profanities in comic strips, appearing in dialogue balloons in place of actual dialogue.
MeONV TIL that Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) and Jerome Flynn (Bronn) used to be in a relationship, which ended so terribly that they refuse to be in the same room. Consequentially, Cersei and Bronn have actually never been in a single scene together in Game of Thrones.