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TIL a teletubby toy was recalled in the late 90s for calling kids "faggot" and telling them to "bite my butt"

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kOOw7 A windowless skyscraper in the heart of New York City may be the secret Manhattan surveillance hub of the US National Security Agency (NSA), The Intercept has reported. The brutalist, 29-storey AT&T Long Lines Building at 33 Thomas Street has sheer concrete walls that could reportedly survive an atomic explosion; inside, documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest is one of the agency’s most important spying centres.
Ne8 TIL that it took longer than usual to measure Bob Beamon’s World Record Long Jump leap in 1968 as it was beyond the limit of the measuring equipment.
kO45e TIL Ben Affleck is banned for life from playing Blackjack at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas after being caught counting cards.
oR4br TIL the number of weeks pregnant is calculated to the date of a woman's last period. Not when they actually conceived.
LkLYv TIL a 2004 study found out that only about 1 in 25,000 Singaporeans aged 15-64 had used cannabis in the previous year.