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TIL that in the UK, the BBC has 'TV detector vans' to help enforce TV licensing fees from people who illegally receive a TV broadcast signal in their home.

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Oyy1 TIL James Madison proposed creating the Senate to protect the very wealthy from the poor: “Landholders ought to have a share in the government […]. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body”
rNmVo TIL: 2nd POTUS Adams never owned a slave and declined on principle to use slave labor
XND TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village
lwX7 TIL that, in 2009, thousands of women in Kenya went on a seven-day sex strike in protest of political instability. The strike was successful and ended in peaceful talks, because, above everything else, sex matters the most.
Vbpm TIL that there is a town in northern Kazakhstan where residents fall into a deep sleep for up to 6 days at a time. No abnormal radiation or gas levels have been detected and to this day, no one knows why.