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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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GAgn5 TIL the female singer on Great Gig in the Sky is a white woman, Clare Torry, who had to sue to get title credits and fair compensation for her work.
DQNDe TIL smell is the only sense that isn’t processed by the thalamus (sensory integration center of the brain); instead, smell is directly processed in the primary olfactory cortex without us consciously registering them, which is why odors can bring back memories without us understanding why.
grLBX TIL Bruce Willis was suffering from FTD for his last 30 movies, which were all terrible. He didn't even know he was on the set. Where was his wife?
EAxd TIL that the 1995 Bjork song “It’s Oh So Quiet” is a remake of an obscure B-side from 1951 — which itself was a remake of a French song from 1949 (“Tout est Tranquille”) — which itself was a remake of the original German song, “Und Jetzt ist es Still” from 1948. It’s a cover of a cover of a cover.
GA5w7 TIL of a disgruntled designer for SimCopter (1996) that created an Easter Egg that would spawn "shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other" in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. But the RNG he created for it malfunctioned, leading them to appear frequently