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TIL of OFCOM, a regulatory body set up in the United Kingdom to ensure impartiality in news reports on television and on radio. Their work has helped to ensure that TV news organisations in the UK are regarded as some of the most impartial in the world.

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VwJ8 TIL Paralyzed Writer Jean-Dominique Bauby developed a method of communication based around blinking just his one working eyelid. his final book, about 140 pages long, took Bauby an estimated 200,000 blinks to complete. The book ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ was a critically acclaimed hit.
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