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TIL that Canadian law mandates that 35% of radio and 55% of television broadcasts must “at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada.”

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5YPQ9 TIL that some 430,000 years ago, high in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain, a lethal assault was committed. The victim, a young adult Neanderthal, received two blows to the head, just above the left eye.
O8ja TIL that the end of a tape mesaure is supposed to move back and forth to account for its own width in inside/outside measurements
mdbE TIL that the 404 error code originated at the CERN labs in Switzerland, where a physical room numbered 404 housed the original WWW database.
Z8D5D TIL, CAPTCHA is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
WkPRB TIL Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee) was easily offended on the set of The Andy Griffith Show and the staff took a cautious approach when communicating with her. Andy Griffith said Bavier phoned him four months before she died and apologized for being "difficult" during the series run.