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TIL that Quentin Tarantino got the inspiration to use manga comics to portray the gruesome violence in Kill Bill from Indian filmmaker Kamal haasan

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75Mb TIL that in the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Mao Zedong invited people to openly express their opinions and have free discussions. Once this happened, he cracked down on those who said the wrong things.
MBBV TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” The case was dismissed.
j6MYj TIL In 2000,an American named Jupiter was in Kinsale, Ireland, bought all the lobsters destined for someone's main course, to free them back into the sea. "Aileen was taking the lobsters out and he was saying to her, `Be gentle, be gentle - don't hurt them.' "
jARE TIL if we could see the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky with the naked eye it would appear several times larger than the moon.
WZYB TIL the word boycott derived from Charles Boycott, an agent who collected rent from Irish farms on behalf of the British. Farmers demanded rent reductions, Boycott refused and evicted those tenants. Rather than attack Boycott the Irish farmers refused to do business with him at all. Boycotting.