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TIL: That two days before Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, the BBC was taken off air with little warning, the last programme to be shown being a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The government was concerned that the VHF transmissions would act as a a beacon to enemy aircraft that could bomb London.

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