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TIL Chinese companies hire white people to give the impression they are “international”

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x7R7 TIL the barking sounds heard at the beginning of Jane’s Addiction’s single “Been Caught Stealing” was the result of singer Perry Farrell’s dog in the vocal booth. He and his dog ran around the room and the dog started barking inside.
NXGGM TIL the Carlton Tavern, based in London, was demolished by its owners after failing to obtain the necessary planning permission. The council subsequently ordered the pub to be rebuilt brick by brick. The pub was the only building in the street to survive the Blitz during WW2. It reopened in 2021.
ENBd TIL that the instruction manual for the WW2 Tiger tank was written in poetry, and features ‘a woman who frequently found herself without any clothes with cartoon Tiger crewmen’
r5yy TIL New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day
R7RW6 TIL: When Richard Dawkins originally coined the term, a "meme" was a basic elements of culture just as a gene is the basic component of genetics.