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TIL a Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia because it tells kids that “spiders can’t hurt you”

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1a1oX TIL a study was performed testing the survivability of Spiders when sucked up by vacuum cleaners
GYQP1 TIL the Speed of Light was approximated by Römer back in 1676 using Io’s eclipse of Jupiter. The eclipse occurred 10 minutes after the expectation, allowing the speed of light to be estimated at 220,000km/s.
101d TIL that cats do not so much view their human owners as parents or caretakers, but as inexplicably large, non-hostile cats that just happen to be their roommates.
6Ew7X TIL that the lyric "Annie, are you OK?" from the Michael Jackson song "Smooth Criminal" actually stems from American CPR training, in which students practise on their unresponsive plastic patient, CPR Annie who’s face was molded after a unknown girl who drowned in Paris.
YEbG TIL that if a similar show launched today that went as far back as That 70s Show did when it first aired, it’d be about a group of high schoolers in 1994.