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TIL that Monty Python’s Life of Brian was marketed in Sweden as “so funny it was banned in Norway.”

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R7b04 TIL the history of Londons stretcher railings, metal fences made from WW2 stretchers once used to carry wounded civilians during the Blitz.
5Vyar TIL that FL once produced nearly 100 percent of all citrus grown in the U.S, but following two deep freezes in the 1890s, Florida’s citrus industry never fully recovered and was replaced by California. CA now produces 79 percent of all citrus in the U.S, while Florida produces less than 17 percent.
ANAKx TIL In 1906 Andrew Carnegie formed the Simplified Spelling Board to fix spelling in the English language. Teddy Roosevent was ready to impose their recommendations but he and Carnegie disagreed on how to get the public to adopt. So we're still stuck with that "d" and "e" in Wednesday.
wBGP TIL that the world’s oldest company is Kongō Gumi, a Japanese construction firm founded in 578 and which operated independently until it was bought out in 2006.
LkpN9 TIL that the date for Easter and a surprising amount of details for Christianity were decided in 325 A.D. by the First Council of Nicaea.