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TIL that in 2010, newly elected mayor of Reykjavik Jon Gnarr announced that he won’t form coalition with anyone who hasn’t seen all five seasons of ‘The Wire’.

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QNZQd TIL Warner Bros Discovery bought the rights to distribute the Olympics coverage to all 50 European countries for Paris 2024 and the next 4 Olympics and limits national public broadcasters the amount of live coverage
LlVV TIL Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone. It was originally invented by Antonio Meucci, however he could not afford the $10 to renew his ‘impending patent’. Alexander filed a patent for the idea and Antonio died before legal action could be taken.
VB6bB TIL Since Adolf Hitler renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925, he was stateless for about seven years until he got his German citizenship in 1932. The delay was due to several attempts to get him a government job that would have granted him citizenship falling through.