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TIL that Apple doesn’t allow villains to use iPhones in movies

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VMQV8 TIL Joshua Bell, one of the best concert violinist in the world played for free, for 45 minutes, on a violin worth 3.5 million dollars at a subway station. Over a thousand people passed by Bell, only seven stopped to listen him play, including a 3-year old boy, and only one person recognized him.
4Xyna TIL in 2011 a Soviet war memorial in Sofia, Bulgaria was vandalized overnight, with the soldiers depicted as American pop culture characters and the spray-painted caption "Abreast with the Times"
9wy46 TIL that in the late 1800s vulcanite was used to make dentures and that Goodyear used a questionable patent to go after dentist. This stopped when a dentist murdered the financial director responsible.
b4Va TIL medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern workers
VMggp TIL after David Bowie went to Bali with Iggy Pop, he was so impressed by the Balinese Cremation Ceremony that he requested he be transported back there upon his death and “cremated in accordance with the Buddhist rituals of Bali.” He ended up being cremated in New Jersey.