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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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YpNXB TIL that all beaches in Mexico are property of the federal government. There are no privately owned beaches in the whole country, all of them are open to public use.
8emaK TIL Nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to succeed outright as violent insurgencies
v8lL TIL: Despite implications to the contrary, the USA spends more money on education, per student, than any other country in the world. Funding isn’t the problem in the US
VMveZ TIL the Senate of Zimbabwe reserves 2 seats for people with disabilities and 18 for traditional chiefs. Currently 21 out of 80 senators are women.
19LV TIL in 1953, Swanson had 260 tons of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving and didn’t know how to get rid of it. They asked their workers for ideas, and one man thought they should package it in individual trays with sides and freeze it. The TV dinner was born.