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TIL because France prohibits alcohol sponsorship of sport, the Guinness Six Nations rugby championship is branded there as 'Six Nations Greatness'

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b6llp TIL blood oranges get their color from the pigment anthocyanin. This pigment needs low nightly temperatures to form. Anthocyanin is not commonly found in a majority of citrus fruits.
OR4X TIL that South Africa was one of the few countries that was unable to watch the Moon Landing live in 1969. Television was banned in South Africa at the time because there were fears that it would promote race mixing against nonwhites as the country was under Apartheid
69vm8 TIL Meredith Burgess stars in both the Rocky films and Santa Claus the Movie. I've watched SCtM every Christmas eve morning for about 35 years and the Rocky films are my favourite movies, only realised this morning.
rRboM TIL Czech Republic has "Babyboxes" which allow anonymous abandonment of unwanted babies
50VP TIL that, after Richard Feynman was named the world’s smartest man by Omni magazine, his mother said, “If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”.