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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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RJe1 TIL that the flaw that destroyed Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 almost occurred on another mission a year earlier. One of the astronauts on the 1985 flight was told that “you came within three-tenths of one second of dying.”
AN0Ll TIL there's a burger chain called Supermac's that has a Big Mac knock off burger called the Mighty Mac, McDonald's sued them and lost
m1jgo TIL that after Buddy Holly passed away at just 22, his record label was able to release new music from him for the next 10 years, thanks to the recordings he left behind.
X0pZQ TIL the national anthem of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is “Yumi, Yumi, Yumi”
PmdJ TIL The movie ‘Jaws’ was supposed to have a lot more shark in it. After experiencing daily technical problems with the mechanical shark, Steven Spielberg was forced to rewrite the script and focus more on the 'fear of the unknown’. It went on to become the highest grossing film of all time.