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TIL depictions of handcuffs in the media are pixelated in Japan, as it implies guilt and prejudices the trial. France has a law which requires the same censorship.

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neRlG TIL About the underground city of Derinkuyu, located in Turkey. Large enough to hold 20 000 people and containing chapels, storage rooms and stables it was re-discovered accidentally when a Turkish man was trying to expand his home and knocked down a wall leading into the tunnel complex.
d87Q TIL when Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain” is played directly into a dead squid’s nervous system it changes colour to the beat.
j6rmj TIL that on 9/11 an FBI informant was making a covert recording in WTC 3 and just happened to catch the audio and panic of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center (first plane impact at 1:10:40, second at 1:27:28)
GlxQ TIL That ESPN accounts for more than HALF of Disney’s total operating income.
x6Vv1 TIL: In 2003, there was a real Trolley car scenario in which authorities actively chose to endanger fewer people than doing nothing