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TIL Malaysia banned Brad Pitt adverts due to concerns it would inflate male beauty standards

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9YedX TIL that the hottest temperature ever rocorded in the universe was man made, by smashing lead ions together to generate 5.5 Trillion degrees Celsius (the centre of the sun is a mere 15 million Celsius)
lLwG TIL that there is a programming language called INTERCAL which have keywords like IGNORE, PLEASE , FORGET. If you don’t use PLEASE enough times while coding,Compiler rejects the code.
kJn6B TIL that prolific author Anne Perry was born Juliet Hulme, who with her best friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker’s mother in 1954
Z89gR TIL HSBC knowingly laundered so many billions of dollars for the Mexican drug cartel that special deposit cash boxes were developed for them to fit the exact size of the teller windows. No executive saw a jail cell.
loNga TIL that "Tattoo" is a military bugle call played daily in the U.S. Army, not long before "Taps", which is played last; the word has a completely different etymology than does "tattoo" meaning a design inked into the skin.