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TIL that BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation’s headquarters during the 1960s and 70s and Play School presenters even went on-air stoned.

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YpoP TIL that several airlines who aired the movie “Rain Man” deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents, except for Quantas, who even promoted one of the movie’s writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline.
d8n7E TIL that in the Deep South, you can dig into a jar of sweet and sour Kool-Aid pickles (also know as Koolickles).
4kgr5 TIL millionaires and billionaires account for 1.1% of the world population.
VMmyD TIL that since the turn of the century, cockroach populations have plummeted in some former Soviet countries for unknown reasons, with at least one species being proposed for inclusion in lists of threatened fauna
b8jE TIL redheads experience pain differently from other people (more sensitive to some types of pain, less to others) because of their genetic makeup; they are also slightly less responsive to anaesthetics.