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TIL that, as a man, you can be arrested in Iran for wearing shorts.

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LoZr Today I learned Peter Jackson owns the movie rights to a book series about Dragons in the Napoleonic War
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ZpYo TIL that, whilst fighting in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell was shot through the neck. The bullet missed his main artery by a fraction, but he fully recovered - going on to write Animal Farm and 1984, amongst others.
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