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TIL of 1960s Japanese TV series The Samurai. After few episodes were shown on Australian TV in 1964, viewer demand led to the entire series being shown: it became the most popular show on TCN9 to that time and when the series star arrived in Melbourne he was met by thousands of fans, many in costume

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4X56N TIL In 1951, Mel Blanc (the voice of most Looney Tunes) accomplished what was then considered to be impossible, when he voiced both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, doing impersonations of each other. According to voice actors, the impressions should have muddled, or the voices straddled one another.
xV8OB TIL in 1960 a Russian man with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving everyone on board.
gMLnX TIL - "Peace of Westphalia", signed on 24th October 1648, was the first international congress atended by almost all European leaders, ending a 30 and 80 y/o war in former Europe, beginning of the new peace order upheld until today.
W7EEY TIL that according to a Children's Sugar Consumption Survey, children eat 22.862 sugar snacks a week on average on Pennsylvania, the most of any state in the United States (Lowest: Utah, 4.830)
ZY6o TIL that men have to pay child support to women who rape them