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TIL Safer Internet Day is an Internet risk awareness day held every second day of the second week of February in the European Union. It conducts awareness campaigns focusing on issues related to cyberbullying, child pornography & pedophilia online, sexting, loss of privacy, sedentary lifestyle, etc.

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4MLR TIL that Led Zeppelin was sued by the band Spirit for stealing the famous intro to “Stairway to Heaven” from its song “Taurus”
gVg4 TIL in 1971, Saddam Hussein imported 95,000 tons of grain treated with fungicidal mercury. The grain was intended for planting, but the Iraqis, unable to understand the English and Spanish warnings or the “skull and crossbones” image, baked it into bread. Hundreds died.
Z8QOv TIL that in a zoo, tigers and lions are fed ice cubes made by freezing the blood known as "bloodsicles." This is done to provide cooling to them in a hot weather.
yVWel TIL of The Phoebus cartel. It was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of light bulbs in much of Europe and North America. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours.
e0dvJ TIL that life under chronic hypoxia has multiple advantages for humans including an overall higher lifespan.