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TIL Turkey made the letters Q, W, and X illegal for 85 years (1928 - 2013)

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ayjZ TIL that the original version of the Aladdin story is explicitly set in China by its opening sentences, and Aladdin himself is Chinese
4XO7N TIL that both E.T. and Poltergeist were developed from a single unproduced movie called 'Night Skies'
8NEb TIL that famed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was in Paris during the Nazi occupation; despite Django being a gypsy, handicapped, a player of a banned music style, and a known friend of blacks and Jews, the nazi’s left him alone because some higher nazi officers were huge fans of his music.
e446 TIL that it is a myth that violence against women rises on Super Bowl Sunday.
jVEM TIL, 30 years ago on this day Sept. 26th 1983. A Russian Colonel named Stanislav Petrov, now known as The man who saved the world, averted WW3. A Soviet early warning satellite detected nuclear launches from the US. Petrov trusted his instincts that the computers were malfunctioning and did nothing.