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TIL that when it became apparent that Israel was going to win the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest, Jordanian TV stopped the live broadcast, showed a picture of daffodils, and later announced that Belgium had won

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GYbYJ TIL that Popeye the sailor man was based on a real guy from Illinois.
dDmKK TIL that in the first English release of the Game Boy Advance game Tales of Phantasia, the translators accidentally referred to the end of the world as "Kangaroo" instead of "Ragnarok"
eDP6 TIL in 1355 in Oxford, England a dispute between two students and a Pub Landlord over the quality of their pints resulted in a two day riot, which left 63 scholars and 30 locals dead.
mxkoo TIL that the blue light exposure from a monitor is about 100 times below the international recommended limit. The spectrally weighted irradiance from computer screens and mobile devices is a lot lower than the natural exposures.
4X4xa TIL Don Rickles befriended mobster ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo when he made fun of Gallo in his stand-up against everyone’s warnings. Gallo took it in good humor and invited Rickles out to dinner. He declined, and that night the restaurant erupted in a gunfight, killing Gallo.