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TIL that in the UK, you can legally and peacefully avoid paying the TV license provided you fill in a simple form every 2 years and promise not to consume BBC media and broadcasts.

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grPbD TIL that prior to the 1920s, up to 70% of children in parts of the United States had goiters due to iodine deficiency.
yRl8 TIL There are 30 kilometres of tunnel underneath downtown Toronto, connecting shops, subway stations and restaurants so people do not need to go outside into the heat and snow
AD8xl TIL the Hope Diamond, which originated in India, was purchased in 1666 by French gem merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Tavernier sold it to King Louis XIV in 1668. It was stolen in 1791 and was recut and renamed by a London banking family called Hope in 1839.
M77QB TIL that the US army awarded 20 Medals of Honor, the highest and most prestigious military decoration, to soldiers for their actions at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Many of those killed by US troops during the massacre were unarmed women and children.
ep7RE TIL that the ship's bell of the SS Terra Nova of Robert Falcon Scott's last polar expedition is rung everyday at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge when everyone in the institute is invited for coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon, as is British Tradition.