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TIL In Norway, to change your surname to one that 200 or fewer people have, you must ask from permission from everyone who has that name

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M5Za TIL in 2012 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation decided that an episode of the animated children’s series Peppa Pig was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.
MZWV TIL that the earliest voice recording (made in 1860) could not be played back until 2008
9x6m TIL Washington State has a ‘Mutual Combat’ law, where both parties consent to the fight and agree to the rules.