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TIL that the US ranks 47th in the world in Freedom of Press
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TIL that for the film 'Ray' (2004), Jamie Foxx had to wear eye prosthetics that would make him go blind for up to 12 hours a day. It barely left him any time to sleep because he would practice piano after shooting with the blindfold on. He went on to win the Oscar for best actor for his performance.
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TIL that in medieval England, pregnancy was considered impossible without orgasm. Therefore, if a woman was raped and didn’t conceive, there was no evidence, but if she did conceive, it was assumed she enjoyed it. Either way, the rapist would not be convicted.
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TIL Nazi Germany had their very own nazi-themed board games for propaganda
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TIL: In 2014, a Chinese company in Shanghai, offer its employee of the year one night with a Japanese Adult film actress as a bonus.
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TIL that Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was at the forefront of the counterculture’s experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his 1954 work The Doors of Perception. Dying from cancer, he asked his wife on 22 November 1963 to inject him with 100 µg of LSD. He died later that day.