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TIL New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day

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rNYEo TIL Delhi, India is the most surveilled city in the world with 1,826.6 CCTV cameras per square mile
41Aw TIL that after George R. R. Martin saw the Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias”, he called the show “amazing” and noted that “Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros”
NXB7J TIL in 2019, the UK granted asylum to a 14-year-old boy and admitted him to a local high school. He was asking 14yo girls out and changing with 14yo boys in PE. It later turned out he was actually an adult who was wanted for murder in Serbia.
M7E9V Til about king Henry ii and his son Henry the young king. Henry Jr led several revolt’s against his father. Despite this they never stop loving each other. When Henry II learn Henry jr had died he said "He cost me much, but I wish he lived to cost me more”.
wrd1 TIL of a woman who had a phantom itch so persistent and severe in her scalp that she scratched through her skull while she slept, damaging her brain.