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TIL that because of Aboriginal avoidance laws, Many Australian television programs and films include a title card warning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to “use caution viewing this film, as it may contain images or voices of dead persons”

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ZpmJ4 TIL Jason Schwartzman and Nic Cage are first cousins (and Francis Ford Coppola is uncle to both)
Z8mjR TIL in 2012, Kesha admitted that she would demand men entering her tour bus to drop their trousers and let her take pictures of their genitals, specifically for the purposes of emasculating them and letting them know they were in the "vagina jungle"
JKWj TIL for over a decade teachers and principals in Atlanta erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones in students’ tests. At one school, the faculty held weekend pizza parties to correct answers before turning them in. Over the course of a single year, scores at the school jumped 45 percent.
EGOW TIL The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are held by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. This was meant to keep the peace between the religions and has been in place since 1187 ce.
e0kl5 TIL of Katie Brumbach, a 20th century strongwoman who met her husband of 52 years after he took her on in the circus ring; her father was offering a 100 gold marks to anyone who could defeat his daughter. An aspiring acrobat named Max Heymann took her on, but lost. He then fell in love with her.