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Y47d TIL that every year on 21 June, the BBC World Service makes a special broadcast to an audience of just 44 isolated Antarctic researchers, to celebrate midwinter.
ZN8p TIL an Ohio woman once got out of a parking ticket because of a missing comma in the state’s laws. She successfully argued that her car wasn’t a “motor vehicle camper” and therefore wasn’t included in the list of prohibited vehicles.
V5AQ TIL workers excavating the World Trade Center site in 2010 dug up a ship from the 1700s made from the same wood as Independence Hall, where the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were signed.
78JEM TIL In Darabont's original vision for the end of The Shawshank Redemption, Red is seen riding a bus towards the Mexican border, leaving his fate ambiguous. Glotzer insisted on including the scene of Red and Andy reuniting in Zihuatanejo.
Nb5E TIL that under the Taliban’s rule, Afghan Sikhs were forced to wear yellow patches on their clothing to identify them.