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TIL US Marines have strict rules about tattoos, like leaving a two inch gap on the elbow for vein access and uniform reasons.

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XED9r TIL that every station on the Mexico City Metro has a unique symbol in order to help illiterate passengers navigate throughout the system.
Memm7 TIL about the Finkbeiner Test, which is used avoid gender bias in science related journalism by asking the author to avoid mentioning a female scientist's child care arrangements, her husband's job and other topics not germane to the article.
Z8K0G TIL actor Anthony Hopkins had a habit of reading his lines aloud 250 TIMES before shooting a movie. He also memorized a new poem every week to “exercise his mind”
kpp5 TIL Hitler whistled Disney’s “When You Wish Upon A Star” while overlooking the recently conquered city of Paris.
R5Pm8 TIL the Daily Mail used to be openly pro-fascist, with editorials expressing support of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and British fascist movements during the 1930s.