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TIL that an episode of Peppa Pig that taught children that spiders were harmless and can’t hurt you was banned in Australia.

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loGQA TIL about Jose Castellanos Contreras, a Salvodoran army colonel and diplomat, who, while working as El Salvador's Consul General for Geneva during WWII, helped save up to 40,000 Jews and Central Europeans from the Nazis by secretly issuing thousands of "certificates of Salvadoran citizenship"
oBy6o TIL to avoid the show's title leading prospective viewers to assume the show was opera-related, the logo for "The Sopranos" was designed to include a gun in place of the letter "R".
KAYG TIL there is a town in Brazil that powers its streetlights by having convicts pedal bicycles attached to generators.
aaXZ TIL when Shaka Zulu’s mother died in 1827, over 7,000 people were executed for being “insufficiently grief-stricken”. Cows were also slaughtered so that young calves would “know what it feels like to lose a mother.”
RBR7 TIL that in parts of Philadelphia you must be fingerprinted to trade in games at GameStop.