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TIL: Lily Allen turns down 200k in Bitcoins for a gig in 2009.

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mxl9x TIL that Japan has blue traffic lights in some areas because historically the Japanese used the same word for green and blue.
b70Z TIL British censors banned under-18s from viewing the film Alien because it presented “a perverse view of the reproductive function”.
Z871v TIL that these massive concrete acoustic mirrors, or “listening ears,” were built in England between the world wars to monitor the skies for the telltale sounds of airborne invasion.
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