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TIL The Sword in the Stone and Excalibur are two different swords

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6E4VW TIL that Thai cops that break the rules are punished by having to wear pink Hello Kitty armbands while not being allowed to disclose what they've done to "earn" it, leaving their offense to the imagination
lGK TIL there is an actual Whore Island called Viking’s Exotic Resort
8eejG TIL Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi was a pioneer in astrophysics. He was the first to make systematic use of spectroscopy in stellar classification and proved that solar prominences viewed during an eclipse are features belonging to the Sun
jnVR TIL measuring 4086mi^2, the largest salt pan Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is so flat that rain can’t drain, creating the world’s largest natural mirror. It’s also 5x better for satellite calibration than the surface of the ocean, and an elevation measurement accuracy of 0.8 inches
PYPQw TIL "The Beatles" would never have been seen on American TV but for the JFK assassination. CBS executives decided that America needed something light-hearted on the news to take the nation’s mind off the painful assassination and showed a brief clip. Ed Sullivan was unexpectedly watching.