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TIL that the French prime minister insisted that his cabinet watch the film La Haine (Hate)

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Z871v TIL that these massive concrete acoustic mirrors, or “listening ears,” were built in England between the world wars to monitor the skies for the telltale sounds of airborne invasion.
lJdV TIL that North Korea has abducted–in addition to around 485 South Koreans–Japanese, Chinese, Malaysians, French, Italians, and other citizens mainly for them to teach languages at spy schools.
rRD4d TIL The University of British Columbia has a modern First Nations Longhouse constructed with Western redcedar logs and was designed to reflect the architectural traditions of Coast Salish-styled longhouses. It serves as an intellectual, social, spiritual, and cultural home for Aboriginal students
LYyr TIL that after the capture of a serial killer of children, a police officer found his own daughter tied and gagged in the back of the killer’s van.
WkwnN TIL Amway, the infamously successful MLM company, its Chinese ‘sale reps’ were so toxic that its name in Chinese, AN LI, has entered the vernacular to mean to “promote heavily” or to “be brainwashed.”