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TIL There has been an annual festival called 'Bob Dylan Festival' celebrated in the city of Shillong, Meghalaya, in India since 1972.

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8anKV TIL Jim Henson would yell out "blue sky" when a child came to sets. All the muppeteers knew this code and would chill out with bad language and the such.
bgX9 TIL that São Paulo, the world’s fourth largest metropolis, banned all outdoor advertising with no ill effect. “The law is now so popular that some companies that were able through legal action to maintain some outdoor presence chose not to, so as not to be seen as flying in the face of [it]”
p8E5b TIL in a study of 1,000s, the score for "dark triad" (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) was subtracted from "light triad" (Kantianism, Faith in Humanity, Humanism) to an avg. balance of 1.3, suggesting the avg. human tends to the light more than the dark.
VMbaD TIL that unlike the USA, insulting somebody is a crime in many countries, with Germany, Turkey, Russia and Chile having the highest prison sentences for offenders
R71dw TIL the production budget of the first season of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" was so low, the cast shot the opening credits sequence using a digital camera themselves while driving around Philadelphia one night. Charlie Day called it the "cheapest credits ever."