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TIL that until 1987 all media stations were legally required to provide fair and balanced coverage to controversial issues

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VM1GB TIL that for 25 years, the Space Shuttle couldn't fly a mission over New Year's because the flight computers couldn't cope with the year changing. This was only fixed in 2007, four years before the fleet's retirement.
4kv55 TIL that the words cannon, cane, candy, canister and canyon probably share the same Sumerian root which means "reed".
vZX4 TIL Lil Wayne had his life saved by an off duty police officer who drove him to the hospital after the rapper accidentally shot himself as a child.
WlE4 TIL that the cast of the 1979 science fiction horror film ‘Alien’ was never told about the chestburster scene in order to capture the authentic fear of the actors
w9dE TIL In 2016, China passed a new law that banned people from seductively eating bananas on live stream.