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TIL Grand Island and Navy Island, near Niagara Falls was a proposed location for the UN headquarters

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V6wB TIL that during a UK National Election, British media coverage is ‘restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations or the weather’
RL1l TIL Vatican officials are changing the way they think about same sex couples. They are telling the Catholic Church to “welcome gays”
jNw9M TIL George Lucas approved of Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody Spaceballs and signed off on a fair use agreement. The only condition was that no Spaceballs merchandise would be made to compete with Star Wars merchandise. This is why there’s never been any Spaceballs figures, cereal, or flamethrower.
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