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TIL replay reviews for MLB games are done in New York

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newQo TIL that Great Britain once had a Cones Hotline for people to report rogue traffic cones. The Cones Hotline was launched in 1992 for citizens to report traffic cones on the road for no obvious reason. The policy was mocked for both being comically pointless and for being a waste of government money.
KDLB TIL in 2006, the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque and disguised him as a radical Muslim. The Muslims in the mosque ended up reporting him to the FBI for being a potentially dangerous extremist.
goAD TIL Garfield (the comic strip) was never supposed to be funny. It was crafted to fit a marketing niche.
4krPb TIL China has a huge national run sports program
X0DvR TIL that E.T. was voiced by an actress named Pat Welsh, who was a raspy voiced chain smoker and only appeared in three films in her life. Her other famous voice role? Leia’s Boushh disguise in Return of the Jedi.