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TIL Indian Railways have their own cricket team and stadium

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jNxvj TIL In 1915 Closing and Opening times in pubs had to be implemented to stop factory workers showing up to work drunk and harming the war effort
VnMZ TIL that Joseph Colombo, who started the Italian-American Civil Rights League to protest the depiction of Italians as Mafia in entertainment, was the head of the Colombo Crime Family.
mxKEP TIL that the Statue of Liberty was orginally intended for the Suez Canal. When the Canal neared completion, the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi requested to build a sculpture he named "Egypt Bringing light to Asia" at the canal's entrance. When he was denied, he went with his ideas to New York.
Ak5g TIL George Lucas gave a speech in 1988 to Congress about the need to protect films from being altered. “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”
6EPQw TIL that in 1969, Georges Perec wrote a 300-page novel called "La Disparition" which completely lacked the letter 'e'. It has since been translated into a dozen languages maintaining this limitation, including an English version entitled "A Void".