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TIL When they casted Robin Lively as Daniel LaRusso's love interest in 'Karate Kid III', producers were forced to take out the romance between her charatcer and Daniel because Robin was a minor at the time (16) and Ralph Macchio was 27 (although his character Daniel is 17).

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kJ4xd TIL Jeffrey Dahmer converted to Christianity after being baptized by a pastor named Roy Ratcliff. Dahmer met with Ratcliff every week to discuss the Bible until he was murdered 14 months later. Ratcliff described Dahmer as a truly changed man.
40XN TIL that Nikon was accused of racist face-detection software - when Asian faces were photographed, a message would pop up on the camera screen asking, “Did someone blink?”
Wkm4X TIL In Japanese tradition, rabbits live on the Moon where they make mochi, the popular snack of mashed sticky rice. This comes from interpreting the pattern of dark patches on the moon as a rabbit standing on tiptoes on the left pounding on an usu, a Japanese mortar.
EgEZX TIL that tea is most popular drink in the world other than plain water. More tea is consumed worldwide than all other manufactured drinks combined (including coffee, soda, and alcohol).
KYoP6 TIL after “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” faced controversy for its depiction of India, Mola Ram actor Amrish Puri said: "I know we are sensitive about our cultural identity, but we do this to ourselves in our own films. It's only when some foreign directors do it that we start cribbing."