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J1694 TIL Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom maintain territorial claims in Antarctica, but the United States and most other countries do not recognize those claims.
Lk0P9 TIL Japan's porn industry is stifled by a shortage of male porn stars. There are only 70 male porn stars in Japan compared to 10,000 female porn stars.
b9DkE TIL that in 2014 Zara released striped pajamas with a sheriff badge which looked like a prisoner uniform from Jewish concentration camps. Needless to say, they got a lot of shit for that and pulled them off store shelves.
b9GjE TIL of remittance men - useless sons of Victorian British upper middle class families being given an allowance by their own family to be as far away from family as possible, typically settling in very remote parts of the British Empire.
aw4m9 TIL stripper anthem "Cherry Pie" by the '80s hair metal band Warrant was an unplanned song written in fifteen minutes under record label pressure, and was despised by the band.