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TIL that a Muslim cable TV network was created in 2004 to counter “extreme stereotypes” of Muslims. In 2009, the founder of the network was arrested for beheading his wife.

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gra9X TIL the BBC released a 'Green Book' in 1949 to define comedy guidelines. Among some of the banned topics were jokes about fig leaves and vulgar use of the word 'basket'.
grWJ9 TIL Lal Bihari Mritak is an Indian farmer and activist who was officially declared dead between 1975 and 1994. He fought with Indian bureaucracy for 19 years to prove that he is alive.
Bwpy TIL in an effort to deter nuclear warfare, Robert Fisher suggested the nuclear codes be placed in the chest cavity of a Presidential aid. The president would have to physically take a life in order to use nuclear weapons.
x65Po TIL That primes numbers used in cryptography aren't 100% primes. They are numbers that has a false positive rate of less than one in a million billion billion of not being primes.