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TIL Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent.

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VMoxZ TIL A Marathon is so called, because the message runner from the Battle of Marathon, had to run 26 miles back to Athens to report the victory. He proclaimed "Nike, Nike" (meaning 'victory') before collapsing and dying.
b70Z TIL British censors banned under-18s from viewing the film Alien because it presented “a perverse view of the reproductive function”.
DQYNV TIL In 1930 the gangster Legs Diamond went to Europe. The American government warned Europe so Diamond was immediately arrested in Belgium and then deported to Germany where he was immediately arrested and deported back to the USA. Diamond was arrested in Philadelphia and banned from the city.
Egxv7 TIL that cousin marriage is more like "a norm" than a "taboo/exception" and only half of the US states ban it.
W9Z4 TIL cats are banned from the world’s northernmost city of Longyearbyen because they pose a threat to the local bird population.