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TIL of the Rotherham child sex ring scandal wherein at least 1,400 children, mostly white girls aged 11–15, had been sexually abused between 1997-2013 by predominantly Muslim men. A scandal known to the local government, but never acted upon for fear of allegations of racism

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5Y6p9 TIL: In Cendrillon, the original story of Cinderella, her real name was Lucette. The stepsisters gave her the nickname Cindarella because she always had to clean the chimney and was forced to sleep in the cinders by the fireplace, leaving her dirty.
BWJk TIL six years after the fall of Communism in Poland, consumption of alcohol grew to five times the average levels of Western countries, and one liquor store for every 300 people serviced the demand.
KRME TIL the iconic promotional image of Willem Dafoe with his hands raised in anguish from movie “Platoon” was inspired by a real photo from the Vietnam War by Art Greenspon who traveled to Vietnam in his 20s to document the war
WKMN TIL Around the 16th century, there was a chamber in the fortress of Biertan (Romania) where all the couples that wanted to divorce were forced to live with only one item of everything: one bed, one spoon, one chair, etc. before breaking up. Only one couple in 300 years ended up divorcing.
rNlQ4 TIL: That for certain songs on the album "Tusk", Lindsey Buckingham played a Kleenex box as a snare drum and had Mick Fleetwood overdub his own drums over Buckingham's demos. He would also tape microphones to the studio floor and get into a sort of push-up position to sing.