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TIL Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has been described by some as India’s greatest cultural export to China since Rabindranath Tagore. Khan’s movie, Secret Superstar, was a record for an Indian movie in China, eclipsing even Hollywood hits such as James Cameron’s 2010 Avatar

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b6gJ4 TIL since 1998, officials at the Library of Congress have been looking for the exact books Thomas Jefferson sold to the library which were later lost in a fire in 1851. They’ve located over 4,000 exact replacements with the same publisher, date, and edition as Jefferson's 4,324 original volumes.
78Aop TIL that the xxx rating in america has never actually been recognised by the mpaa, and it was invented by adult movie studios to imply their films were more hardcore than normal x-rated films
1abG8 TIL David Bowie's eyes were both blue. One pupil was just permanently dilated (anisocoria).
oYXW TIL The city of New York has paid for many one-way plane tickets to help the homeless relocate, even overseas, if they have a guaranteed place to stay.
eXyD TIL the three member crew of NASA’s Skylab 4 mission staged a one-day mutiny where they shut off all communication with ground control and spent the day relaxing and looking at the Earth.