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TIL BBC World Service was originally called “The BBC Empire Service”

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ar10 TIL 91% of Americans watched the OJ Simpson trial verdict. It was the most unproductive half hour in American history and cost the US economy $480 million.
Z80nR TIL: The central spire on the Notre Dame was built almost 600 years later in the 19th century amid a broad restoration effort, partly buoyed by the success of Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" in 1831.
mxgyo TIL about Her Grand Ducal Highness Princess Elisabeth, who went from being Governor of Moscow under Tsar Alexander III, to an Orthodox nun, trading her riches away for a tiny monastery.
EOvP TIL There is a North Korean village just across the border with South Korea nicknamed “Propaganda Village”. It is apparently uninhabited and for many years it had speakers that broadcast propaganda across the border 24/7.
VB1VD TIL The town of Crestone, Colorado is the only place in the United States that allows burial on a pyre.