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TIL Zoolander is banned in Malaysia

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JY6ml TIL that Rick Rescorla, the director of security at Morgan Stanley, saved the lives of nearly his whole company on 9/11 by making them evacuate the South Tower as soon as the North Tower was hit, which was against Port Authority orders
G6QG TIL In Japan, sleeping on the job is encouraged. It is viewed as exhaustion from working hard. Some people even fake it to look committed to their job.
9YBjG TIL Mongols have an ice fishing technique at Changan Lake that dates back over 2,000 years and is done in temperatures as low as -22C to -30C.
Wk88o TIL the role of Hannibal Lecter was turned down by Sean Connery, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro & others. Silence of the Lambs would go on to be the 3rd film in history to win all "Big 5" Academy Awards & upon release in 1991 on VHS, became the most rented film in the United States.
m1BM TIL A younger vision of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” will be presented in Geneva with the suggestion that it is the original version of what has been called the world’s most famous painting.