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TIL that prostitution is not a crime in the UK, but some related activities like soliciting in a public place, or owning a brothel are

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e0ErE TIL in 2017 Glastonbury Festival had to add pineapples to their list of contraband following the success of Glass Animals and their song Pork Soda, which contained the lyric "Pineapples are in my head" and caused fans to bring the fruit to live performances en masse
kJVee TIL About USS The Sullivans - The first ship in the Navy named after more than one person. It was named after 5 brothers who were killed when their ship was torpedoed in WWII, an event that led to the policy portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. USS The Sullivans itself sunk in 2022 as a museum ship.
1aJ0O TIL Three cleanup volunteers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant voluntarily suited up in scuba gear and swam into the radioactive water, knowing that they would die as a result, to open a gate valve allowing containmented water to drain out preventing a catastrophic thermal explosion.
jpej TIL: Space Ghost Coast to Coast was essentially killed by AOL.
oXaE TIL Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s were both founded by the same man.