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7rgXx TIL Australia routinely (and ironically) denies entry to non-citizens who have a criminal record.
rjw TIL that Summer was considered a bad time to release a movie in the theater because of low sales until Steven Spielberg’s JAWS.
gMY78 TIL in the northeast Indian state of Manipur, separatist movements have banned mainstream Indian culture like Bollywood. This has led many youth to take to K-pop instead, largely through pirated copies smuggled from Myanmar. Korean phrases are also becoming increasingly common in the local dialect.
R0Kl TIL on August 29, 1966, The Beatles played what would become their last official concert as a band at Candlestick Park, San Francisco. The Park’s capacity was 42,500, but only 25,000 tickets were sold, leaving large sections of unsold seats.
5YVbr TIL that actor Mark Wahlberg had a cocaine addiction at the age of 13. He was also charged with attempted murder at 16 after bashing a Vietnamese man over the head with a stick and shouting racial slurs at him.