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TIL An Australian public transport authority (Metro Trains, Melbourne) made a music video to promote railway safety. The video was censored in Russia because it “contains a description of different ways of committing suicide”

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p8l7e TIL Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal's Islands of Adventure had a scarezone during the 2002 Halloween Horror Nights, where superheroes were killed in horrific ways and villains took over the island. Marvel officials were angry after finding out and the scarezone was never used again after 2002.
X0Zb8 TIL: Spent nuclear fuel has hope of being recycled in the United States again
mYRP TIL that during the filming of Rushmore, when Wes Anderson had to scrap a shot due to budgetary constraints, Bill Murray handed him a blank check to cover the cost.
16oQ8 TIL that the Welsh Labour Party holds the longest winning streak of any political party in the democratic world. It has consistently been in the biggest party in Wales at every election since November 1922.
b14a TIL: That because Japan’s fertility rate is so low, back in 2008, Japanese workers were told to take off work early to go home and procreate