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TIL an edition of “Where’s Waldo?” is banned in many places because of it showing a woman’s exposed breast in the scene “On the Beach”.

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9wBE6 TIL The BBC publishes in Pidgin (including its cookie policy)
KY6BJ TIL that there is a species of snake named after Professor Farnsworth from Futurama
QJBKp TIL the UN estimates that humans are causing 150+ species of animals and plants to go extinct per day, 1000x above the natural rate, making this the greatest mass extinction since the age of Dinosaurs.
wN88 TIL that Finding Nemo, a movie about the suffering of a captured clownfish, ironically caused home aquarium demand for them to triple.
nlN9 TIL in 1944 by a huge coincidence ,a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation “code names”, which sent MI-5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered.