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TIL China has banned ‘seductive’ banana-eating while live-streaming to clamp down on inappropriate and erotic online content

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lvOa TIL a Brazilian man in the UK, misidentified as a terrorist, was shot point blank in the head 7 times, whilst on the ground; by plain clothed police officers. No one was punished.
R7ep1 TIL credit cards were first "used" over 5000 years ago on clay tablets.
gdQL TIL that the symbols on the first Playstation controllers actually had a purpose. Triangle: A Person’s Viewpoint, Square: A Map, Circle: Yes, and X: No. It was assumed that games released on this console would mostly use controls based on the meanings of these symbols.
PYVXg TIL The largest concentration of Indian restaurants outside the Indian Subcontinent is in Manchester, England on Wilmslow Road which is nicknamed “Curry Mile”
aMwy TIL That Liberal, MO was founded as an atheist utopia in 1880. Sunday evenings at the town hall had lectures from scientist, philosophers, and even Christian ministers/priest with the only limitation being to keep a respectable decorum.