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TIL that it’s illegal for radio stations and streaming services to accept payments from record labels to promote songs without disclosing that the airtime/playlist has been bought or sponsored

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vobr TIL When Mexico proposed all Mexican-made tequila be bottled in Mexico before export, US liquor companies accused Mexico of wanting to create jobs in Mexico. Claiming it violated international trade agreements and was in discord with usual exporting practices worldwide.
4k4YJ TIL that there is a gemstone twice are bright as diamond & 1000 times more rare.
6EAbX Today I learned about "The Thing", one of the first covert listening devices (bugs), which was implanted in a Great Seal of the United States gifted from the Soviet Union to the United States and, being entirely passive in nature, remained hidden for 7 years.
m11rp TIL the ISS is only weightless because it's in orbit (therefore constantly falling) not because of its distance from the earth. An airplane at the same altitude, under its own power would have 89% as much gravity as the earth's surface.
OGnQX TIL the Swiss Guard who guards the Pope must take a vow of celibacy, pass Swiss Army basic training and several other things. They had had a heroic last stand where they were massacred defending Rome in 1527 and there are only 135 of them at one time.