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TIL no football matches can be broadcast live on UK television between 2.45pm and 5.15pm on a Saturday

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p8ABe TIL Popcorn was not allowed in movie theaters before 1927. With ornate architectural designs and costly seats, theater owners believed that popcorn was messy and would ruin the first-rate atmosphere they strived to create. When movies added sound, owners discovered the profitability of popcorn.
kJnd5 TIL following Devo's Rock Hall nomination, the band posted an open letter saying Mike Judge's Idiocracy is "the movie Devo should have made" and "Is there any question that De-evolution is real?"
oBBn7 TIL The New York Times has continually updated the same 2009 article detailing how mass shooters got their guns and what they used
6E1A8 TIL a 24-year-old IT analyst managed to and was arrested for hacking into a public billboard and streaming a Japanese porn film which shocked motorists in Jakarta, Indonesia where access to online pornographic material is blocked
Agw7 TIL Wikipedia has fewer errors per content length than Britannica.