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TIL Wikipedia, Wayback Machine, Imgur & TorrentFreak were once banned in the UK.

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Xg4R TIL the Tetris theme is actually a Russian folk song called “Korobeiniki.”
krLd TIL in their “coming of age” ritual, aboriginals in Australia cut a “birth control” hole in the base of the boy’s penis and insert into it a splinter to keep it from closing. Urine and semen come out of the hole unless the subincision is plugged with a finger.
Zpxyp TIL KFC sent a painting to a guy of himself riding the Colonel piggyback while holding a drumstick for figuring out why they only follow the Spice Girls and 6 guys named Herb on Twitter
40pX TIL that the first Amazon.com customer spent $27.95 and got a building named after him
p8nkO TIL of the biblical practice of shmita - every seven years, farmland would be left fallow. Any crops that grew were free for the taking by all, and all debts were negated.