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TIL FOX only averaged a couple of thousand viewers per day in the UK. It was pulled off the air because it was not commercially viable.

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neWRb TIL that Saddam Hussein received the Key to the City of Detroit in 1980 after donating thousands of dollars to local churches.
VB4Qp TIL that Elizabeth I was likely molested by her stepfather Thomas Seymour. He would forcefully tickle her, slap her butt, and at one point cut her dress ‘into a hundred pieces’. This only ended when Thomas and Elizabeth where caught alone in embrace, resulting in Elizabeth being sent away
J1RyB TIL that the first self-propelled vehicle was invented in 1769 by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, a French engineer and mechanic who was also the first person ever to get into an auto accident.
OGZ54 TIL about an ancient African tradition where a murderer was punished by an assassin running into him with a spear which had meat on it. The murderer kept his mouth open. The murder victim's family decides if the murderer is killed by the spear or fed the meat (forgiven)
awpYJ TIL the oldest advertisement was found on a Mesopotamian stone tablet from around 4000 BC, and it was an advertisement for beer