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TIL Cash Cab actually pre-screened all of its players and the huge wads of cash wielded by host Ben Bailey were not actually given to the players at the end of the program.

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6E77Y TIL that there is a 'copyleft', distinguished from copyright, is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works created later.
JOGv TIL that a man who was kept in a state mental hospital against his will for 15 years sued the state for loss of liberty. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court and marked the beginning of deinstitutionalization of mental asylums in the U.S.
ADggl TIL that fish and chips is historically so important to the UK that in WWI, the British government made safeguarding supplies of them a priority and during WWII, Churchill refused to ration the dish.
e0D4n TIL the movie Jack and Jill won an award in all 10 categories at the 32nd Golden Raspberry awards. This included Adam Sandler winning in BOTH worst actor and worst actress categories.
lEra TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.