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TIL British newspapers campaigned to ban controversial film Crash(1996). Film classification board inquired with lawyers, psychologist, disabled people, found no evidence for ban, and passed the film uncut

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edJ TIL Joe Mauer only struck out once in four years of high school baseball.
rGp0 TIL that in 1964 an Israeli spy convinced the Syrians to plant trees near military fortifications so that their soldiers had some shelter against the sun. The Israeli’s used those trees as targeting markers ensuring a swift victory in the Six-Day War
MkRA TIL the witness Protection Program has never had a breach of security in which a protected person or family member was harmed.
ANXrw TIL the Buddha's tribe of origin, the Shakyas, practiced the veneration of trees and sacred groves. Tree veneration remains important in Buddhism today, particularly in the practice of venerating Bodhi (fig) trees, the type of tree that the Buddha eventually attained enlightenment under.
Lkwo0 TIL of Worker Policing. A brutal regulatory system in hives by which female workers will attach their queen and eat her sons if there are too many compared to their own sons, and sometimes will eat their own if the Queen's eggs are too few.