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TIL in 2012, UK radio station Jazz FM accidentally broadcast 5 minutes of pornographic material after a engineer plugged in a laptop to the output and opened a personal email. The station was not fined by the regulator Ofcom.

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QRnd TIL that there was a congressional inquiry concerning the implied sexual relationship between Batman & Robin.
7JeX TIL in 1999 BMX legend Mat Hoffman flew to Canada to have his ACL replaced. He chose to do so without any anesthesia and even helped the doctor steady the drill as it went through the bone. He was walking and back on his bike 6 days later.
w9dE TIL In 2016, China passed a new law that banned people from seductively eating bananas on live stream.
QJDad TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked Kurt Cobain to parody 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' that Kurt asked him if it would be about food, and Al said it would be about how no one could understand his lyrics. Kurt found that extremely funny, and said absolutely.
pxEA TIL Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary, “When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that’s a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”