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TIL as a result of the episode ‘Band in China’, South Park was banned in China.

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bOB4 TIL Peter The Great accepted his wife be executed after she killed her newborn baby. When he showed up at the execution, the crowd assumed he’d stop the execution, but instead he watched her executed, kissed her detached head and used it to explain to the crowd the intracacies of neck anatomy.
b9Vk4 Til Tiger is the national animal of South Korea, despite being an extinct species in Korea.
jjen TIL in 1974 a newscaster committed suicide during a live broadcast. Her last words were “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in ‘blood and guts’, and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide.”
WPaB TIL of Joe Angelo who saved George S. Patton’s life in WW1, went broke during the Depression, joined the Bonus Army Protests of 1932 where he encountered Patton commanding troops to quell the protests. He approached Patton to sway him, Patton pretended to not know who he was and had him removed.
Nrl6 TIL Russia secretly had maps so detailed of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold-War that other ships now use them over official maps.