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TIL a Tennessee Church kicked out a woman who had been a member for 60 years for refusing to publicly condemn her lesbian daughter

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M5Za TIL in 2012 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation decided that an episode of the animated children’s series Peppa Pig was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.
XExaj TIL the USA have the most billionaires of any country at 614, with China next at 389
QNKLE TIL that the actor for Blippy performed the Harlem Shake on a toilet and defecated on a naked friend prior to becoming a Child Entertainer.
691L8 TIL that one of Britain’s top post-war writers, Benjamin Zephaniah, declined an OBE appointment (Order of the British Empire), stating the honors were "a legacy of colonialism." Besides being a renowned poet, Zephaniah also appeared in “Peaky Blinders” for about 9 years as Jeremiah Jesus
rNa0y TIL in 2011 Abercrombie & Fitch offered Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino (from ‘Jersey Shore’) $10,000 not to wear the company's clothes because they felt it would cause “significant damage” to their image.