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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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wOdJ TIL using fountain pens in a school in Edinburgh improved academic performance and self esteem
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x6Keb TIL that when the Swedish company Spotify went public on the NYSE, the Swiss flag got hung up by mistake
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