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

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xVvxb TIL that many early texts described Jesus as "ugly and small". He is estimated to have been four feet, six inches tall.
QJ4mk TIL the phrase 'pulling out all the stops', meaning to use all the resources or force at one's disposal, comes from organ-playing, where it means to literally pull out every knob to play all the pipes at once, thereby creating the fullest possible sound.
4XEEa TIL that the 1st moon landing, the Manson murders and the Woodstock festival all happened within the timespan of just one month (the Summer of 69) (cbsnews.com)
bwna TIL that in Japanese, the Milky Way is called 天の川 which means The River of Heaven.
Av4l TIL about Muphry’s law. It states that a written​ criticism of editing will always contain an editing error.