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TIL That in the UK? You require a TV license to watch or stream any live content, barring PPV content. (Learned this after reading an article about the Tyson vs Paul fight)

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D1blY TIL that during the 50s til 70s the UK Foreign Office had a program of destroying or hiding files from its ex-colonies, as they gained independence, if they that could embarrass the UK government. This happened in over 20 countries and included documents pertaining to torture and racial biases.
nW45B TIL there was a guy who was suspected to be Jack the Ripper, because his last words before he was hanged for an unrelated crime was ""I am Jack The...", but a modern biographer suggest that he might have been saying "I am ejaculating"
rgX0 TIL that Shakira was rejected from the school choir because her music teacher said that she sounded “like a goat.”
wvJ TIL In 1986, 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 erupted from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, displacing all the air and suffocating some 1,700 people within 25 kilometers of the lake.
bWV9 TIL that schizophrenics are much less likely to recognize the sound of their own voice.