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TIL that under anti-discrimination laws, bartenders cannot legally refuse serving alcohol to pregnant women

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loNAV TIL that Tolkien’s original version of the Dark Lord Sauron in Lord of the Rings was a giant black cat....“Tevildo the prince of cats”
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GYAY5 TIL that in 2010, Microsoft held a funeral for the iPhone to celebrate the launch of Windows Phone 7
rR7MM TIL that the 1980s pop song 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' was banned from being broadcast on the BBC between 1990 and 1991 because it was feared to have anti-Gulf War themes
a8Vo0 TIL that limelight is a type of lighting once used for stages. Intense illumination is created when a flame fed by oxygen and hydrogen is directed at a cylinder of quicklime. Long since replaced by electric lighting, the term has survived; someone in the public eye is said to be "in the limelight."