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TIL due to an oversight by the Metropolitan Police, the BBC now own the trademark of the blue police box (the TARDIS) instead of the actual police force

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Q596 TIL that the Earth curves at the rate of approximately 8 inches per mile (or 12.6 cm per km).
P1Q8E TIL the operating company of Tōjiin Ritsumeikan Daigaku Kinugasa Campus Mae tram station considered shortening the name but changed its mind after discovering it would be the longest station name in Japan
vv4B TIL Semen is a natural anti-depressant
Lmep TIL at the Sanjusangendo Temple in Japan there is an annual competition to fire as many arrows through the temple as possible in 24 hours. The arrows can’t hit the floor, walls or the ceiling. The current record is 8133 successful shots out of 13,053 shots, set in 1686.
VMrQG TIL that in 1995, Motorola made a processor called DragonBall EZ