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TIL showing musical instruments on Iranian TV is banned as it’s seen as being at odds with religion. Concerts are often broadcast with pictures of flowers in lieu of the musicians.

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nkZB TIL: Gordon (sesame street) has been played by the same actor since 1974
ep56J TIL Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Savior of the World'), by Leonardo da Vinci, the most expensive painting of all-time, was sold for $450m to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The painting hasn’t been on display since 2017 and since late 2020 it has been in storage in Saudi Arabia.
9w7Gp TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position on the board
rN7G0 TIL that In 1968, North Korea attacked a US spy ship and captured her 83 crew members. In response, the US considered a blockade of N Korean ports, airstrikes on military targets, a land attack across the demilitarized zone, and even nuclear bombardment if the crew were not released.
5LMk TIL that Archimedes of Syracuse discovered the volume and surface area of a sphere 1800 years before calculus was invented by Newton. He also estimated the value of pi to be 3.14185- that’s over 99.9% accurate.