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TIL Rwanda has the only government on earth in which the majority of parliamentarians are women.

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LQQmv TIL Sigmund Freud lived as a tenant in his Vienna apartment for 47 years with his wife, 6 children, and sister in law from 1891 to 1938. It was transformed into the Freud Museum in 1971
P86w TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”
5VJWn TIL Masayoshi Soken's first game composition was Mario Hoops 3-on-3 for Nintendo DS. He would later go onto compose the stellar music of Final Fantasy XIV.
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