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TIL the 1976 F1 season, made famous in the film Rush, was not televised in the UK because one of the teams was sponsored by condom maker Durex. The BBC deemed it 'unacceptable for family viewing'.

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WxZo TIL Social Security does not contribute to the National Debt
nGk9 TIL Russia didn’t consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was classified as a soft drink.
VZLp TIL in the USA there are more sex offenders who are registered at age 14 than at any other age.
KOKmE TIL The first high-level programming language known as Address was created by a Ukrainian Kateryna Yushchenko. It was more advanced than Fortran, Cobol, Algol which appeared couple years later
QJGnM TIL of El Mahrousa, the official presidential Super-Yacht of Egypt. It was built in 1863 by English engineers, it's the oldest yet still the 9th largest Yacht in the world. It has carried three Egyptian leaders into exile, ended a dynasty, and carried the Egyptian delegation to the 1979 peace talks