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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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bo8Z TIL that if California was a separate nation it would have the 8th largest economy in the world. In 1999 it would have ranked 6th.
yVVda TIL The town of Yale, British Columbia, was once known as the biggest city west of Chicago and north of San Francisco following the 1850s gold rush. Yale burnt down so many times that most of the historic buildings are gone but the Museum is located in an old 1868 house next door to the 1863 church
9wJG7 TIL that in the 17thC version of Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault, the Prince does NOT kiss the Princess while she's sleeping. He approaches her "trembling and admiring", and kneels by her bedside.
ANojw TIL: William Duer, a member of George Washington's inner circle was involved in the first American Insider Trading scandal. Using his knowledge of upcoming Treasury actions, he borrowed and took money from the treasury to leverage bond bets. The market then crashed and Hamilton had to rescue it.
djEQ TIL During WWII, George de Hevesy used aqua regia to dissolve the Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck to prevent them being confiscated. He left the solution in his lab, where it was ignored. After the war, he precipitated the gold out and the medals were recast.