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TIL Trash is America’s #1 export to China

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9YEMQ TIL that when the horror/thriller movie "Scar" (the first American 3D feature film to be completed in HD 3D) was released in 2007, at one instance a man was "out cold and paramedics were actually called" and "one viewer ran out of the theater and threw up"
xVk40 TIL that the notion of Germans being hard workers is a myth. Germany actually has the LEAST cumulative work hours out of all developed nations, with Mexico working the most.
NlV8 TIL that after Sherlock Holmes was killed off, 20000 people cancelled their subscription to the magazine it was published in and bombarded it and Conan Doyle with abusive mail.
9wBWD TIL about William Ellsworth Robinson, a white American man who performed magic under the name "Chung Ling Soo", pretending to be a Chinese man who spoke no English. The only time he spoke English while performing was when he was mistakenly shot and killed while performing a bullet catch trick.
0dmdy TIL that I can use my cruise control set and resume to increase/decrease speed.