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TIL that China banned Multi-level marketing in 1998

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KYgZQ TIL the first publicly transmitted live trans-Atlantic program was broadcast via the Telstar satellite on July 23, 1962, at 3:00 pm EDT with Walter Cronkite as one of the main presenters in the multinational broadcast that included the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower.
xV8Pb TIL Justin Bieber smoked so much weed on a private jet the pilots were forced to put on oxygen masks
9Yv6r TIL Students at Columbia College are required to pass a swimming test before receiving their diploma, in addition to its rigorous Core Curriculum
rR9M4 TIL Pure water, a fluid of strictly H2O, is an excellent insulator and will not conduct electricity due to its neutral particles. Only the introduction of impurities like trace metals with negatively or positively charged particles makes water an excellent, if not deadly, conductor of electricity.
Nm5N TIL that the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus portrays him as a donkey on a cross.