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TIL a dairy farm in Hong Kong, despite having no cattle on site, has been churning out some 4000 bottles of “fresh milk” made of formula everyday since 2008 without the public’s knowledge

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QOYk TIL The “Take On Me” video used a pencil-sketch animation / live-action combination called rotoscoping, in which the live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete.
e0RVJ TIL about Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher/professor whose will requested that his body be preserved and memorialized . He's now on display at University College London, where they sometimes bring him to board meetings where the roll caller marks him as "present but not voting".
6OY TIL of the Edelweißpiraten. They engaged in hiking and camping trips, offered German adolescents an opportunity for sexual experimentation with the opposite sex and were antagonistic to the Hitler Youth.
D1awD TIL in 1934, Swiss banking secrecy laws were strengthened to encourage Jews of Central & Eastern Europe, fearful of Nazis, to hide their assets in Swiss banks. After a majority of those depositors died during the Holocaust, the laws were used to wrongfully deny their heirs access to those accounts
Vxxp TIL during Rolling Stones concerts, Keith Richards would help build elebarate speaker systems on stage, so he would have a secret place to snort pharmaceutical cocaine…“one bump, one song”