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TIL Myanmar officially bans the colors red and yellow from movies, for no clear reason.

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MemP8 TIL Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts. They discovered that this was because male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia.
wLAYo TIL that Melbourne, Australia used to be named Batmania after one of its founders, John Batman
9Ynrm TIL in 1979 the company Shell pressed a release of The Beatles' album Help! with the Shell logo added on the cover and gave the records to their managers and staff.
ooLL TIL James Earl Jones used to freak out truck drivers by using his Darth Vader voice on the CB radio.
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