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TIL that Australia bans porno performers with 'A cup' breasts to curb pedophilia

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KOV54 TIL If you weighed 100 pounds at the north pole on a spring scale, at the equator you would weigh 99.65 pounds, or 5.5 ounces less. Your mass, in grams, would stay the same because 'grams' is a measure of the resistance of a body to being moved and has nothing to do with acceleration or gravity.
mx1Rx TIL that some famous Beatles songs had hilarious working titles. “Yesterday” was originally called Scrambled Eggs, “With a Little Help From My Friends” was originally called Bad Finger Boogie, etc
kJkpe TIL the "Affair of the Cards" was a large scale secret conspiracy between the French government and Freemasons to suppress Catholics in the military
ADJaw TIL Airbus 380 has around 500km (310 miles) of wire cabling
x6bnb TIL Astronauts of the first Apollo crew, Apollo 7, had to wait until 2008 to be honored with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. All other Apollo astronauts received the award almost four decades earlier. Apollo 7 was deemed to be a "101% success"