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TIL an episode of Peppa Pig which teaches children that spiders are harmless is banned in Australia.

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8aVRP TIL about Leo Marks, WW2 cryptographer, who was given a 20 minute training exercise on his first day at work which took him the whole day to complete. He had accidentally not been given the cipher key and ended up breaking a code that was meant to be secure.
W7QBB TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages.
Me007 TIL The "Florida Man" phenomena is in part due to the state's extremely transparent open records laws. Reporters have uniquely easy access to police reports, making it easy to write crime stories.
k5Kd TIL In 17th century Italy conjoined twins were on trial for murder. Authorities arrested Lazarus after he stabbed a man for teasing his parasitic twin brother. Though he was sentenced to death the court let him go, finding that they could not execute him without killing his innocent conjoined twin.
N71XN TIL in 1986, the 18-year-old Prince of Orange Willem-Alexander participated in the 120 mile long ice skating tour known as 'Elfstedentocht'. He entered under the pseudonym 'W.A. van Buren', and managed to finish the tour that passes 11 historic cities in the Dutch province of Friesland.