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TIL in South Korea people under the age of 16 can't play online games between midnight and 6 a.m.

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x6ZJw TIL that in the early 2000s, Warner Bros. planned to produce a Broadway musical about Batman. Tim Burton would have directed and the music was written by Jim Steinman, best known for writing most of Meat Loaf's hit songs
5YwEk TIL The Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II was issued a passport by the modern Egyptian government in order to have his mummified body sent to France for examination, as traveling humans no matter alive or deceased, are required by Egyptian law to have a passport in order to leave the country
JYbEj TIL that a Kentucky man escaped from jail after a friend of his faxed the prison a false demand for his release from a grocery store. It took two weeks for the authorities to realize their mistake and start looking for him. He was found at his mother’s house.
j69bR TIL Madonna's older brother Anthony lived to age 66, was estranged from family, and lived under a bridge at one point
gMGvL TIL in ancient Sri Lanka, they used winds driven by the yearly monsoons to power some of the first steel-making furnaces to produce what's called Wootz Steel.