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TIL during a 1994 blackout, LA residents called the police after seeing the Milky Way for the first time.

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MA4A TIL: The Percentage of airtime on Fox News dedicated to opinion is 55%. For MSNBC, it’s 85%.
e0Xk6 TIL that in Sri Lanka, by law, women are STILL prohibited from buying alcohol! The law was briefly abandoned in 2018, only for the president at that time to step in and reactivate this archaic law again.
9wV4r TIL that medieval kings had a personal banker called the Court Jew
6EDKJ TIL that the game Geometry Dash used to be called, "Geometry Jump beta."
pr9e TIL when Halle Berry accepted her Razzie award for Catwoman in person, she thanked Warner Bros. “Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.”