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TIL that an episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia as it showed Peppa being friendly towards spiders rather than fearing them. When it resurfaced online a few years later, it was banned again.

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oROPo TIL that in 1858, poisoned candy killed 20 people in Bradford, England, and sickened 200 more, when a sweets manufacturer accidentally adultered his sweets with arsenic instead of gypsum (the latter of which was used at the time as a bulking agent and adulterant)
jZPp TIL - Salvador Dalí would avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on his check. His (often correct) assumption was that nobody would want to cash such valuable artwork.
ZKPp TIL the British used Pundits to explore Tibet in the 1800s. Disguised as religious pilgrims, these Indian men were trained to walk precisely 2,000 steps per mile, and mapped much of the area for the British while skirting the bans placed on westerners.
VMvEk TIL Shock G and Humpty Hump from Digital Underground are the same person.
ObNX TIL that the NES, SNES, N64, and GameCube were all released for the same list price in North America: $199