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TIL that spitting in public is punishable by fines up to £500 in the UK

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xVrK5 TIL of the E/I or educational and informative standards that regulate the content of network television programming aimed at a youth audience, forcing networks to drop the classic Saturday morning cartoons.
byva TIL the Wilhelm Scream was screamed by Sheb Wooley, the singer of the novelty song “Purple People Eater”
LQMbV TIL that the library career of the creator of the Dewey Decimal system, Melvil Dewey ended in disgrace, because of his groping of female librarians. Dewey also insisted on seeing photographs of the women before he would hire them, to determine if they were attractive or not.
mxBgE TIL that the reason older people's houses have a weird, distinct odor to them is because of chemicals from the skin glands getting broken down into small odorous molecules that waft into the air.
xgND TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.