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TIL Christians can’t eat shellfish
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TIL in 1958 Cuba became the second country in the world to have color TV broadcasts. However, the Cuban Revolution made them end in 1959 after broadcasting stations were seized, and Cuban television then remained solely black and white until 1975.
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Til of Thomas Brassey, who, by the time of his death in 1870, was responsible for the laying of ¹/²⁰ of all the railways in the world.
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TIL that a 3 mile journey on a steam train, which would have taken 1,000 gallons of water and a tonne of coal, can be replaced by a diesel engine burning 18 gallons of fuel; that's a 98% fall in energy use between the two technologies.
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TIL English actor David Bradley, famous for playing Argus Filch in the Harry Potter movies and Sir Walder Frey in Game of Thrones, is also an accomplished stage actor who won a Laurence Olivier Award for his role in a production of King Lear.
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TIL That since 1951 in Israel it is required by the law that every new building will have a security room that can withstand blast and shrapnel from conventional weapons, and offer protection against chemical and biological weapons.