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TIL An Australian woman won compensation after injuring herself having sex on a business trip

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eOlD TIL there is controversy over whether Cinderella’s shoes are made of glass or of squirrel leather, the two words being homophones in French (vair/verre)
JYMK8 TIL Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, devised a WWII plan to plant false info about the Allies’ next attack on a dead man, drift him at sea, and hope he’d be found by Nazi sympathizers. Operation Mincemeat worked, turning the tide for the Allies, who stormed Italy while the Nazis defended Greece.
8eY4 TIL During the filming of the first shower scene in “American Psycho”, all of the women on set gathered around to watch Christian Bale wash himself.
kJA6g TIL that some pirate codes forbid the crew from seducing a woman, sneaking her on board the ship and taking her out to sea. This offense was punishable by death.
4XQYX TIL about Kiyoshi Shimizu, a Japanese journalist that helped solved a series of child kidnaping cases and released an innocent man from further prosecution. He also helped solved the murder of Shiori Ino which led to the changes to legal treatment of stalking in Japan