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TIL the history behind the Game of Thrones logo that GRRM and his company incorporate the detailing on the logo elements and make them a perfect representation of each honorable house and the show.

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BrJJW TIL Wet Wet Wet lead Marty Pellow had their hit song Love is All Around removed from sales not long after going to the cinema and hearing someone say "God, not that song again!" as the Four Weddings trailer played, it was still selling 120k copies/week when it was pulled 3.5 months after release.
mxKwO TIL that "fart" is one of the oldest words in the English language, and can be traced back to its Proto-Indo-European roots through its cognates in other European languages and Sanskrit
Dajv TIL that there is an FAA regulation called the ‘Sterile Cockpit Rule’, requiring flight crews to only discuss topics related to the flight below 10,000 feet.
wrKJ TIL that a 2014 study found that mothers living within 10 miles of a natural gas fracking site were 30% more likely to have babies with congenital heart defects than those without.
6EYvw TIL that a hitchhiking robot, named HitchBOT, (who successfully hitchhiked across Canada, the Netherlands, and Germany) was ”murdered” in Philly; shortly after beginning its journey in the USA.