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TIL K-pop members have to sign lengthy contracts which enforce them to practice a lot, gives the labels control over how they dress, what they say, and even who they have a romantic relationship with. Also, the government tailors schools to create talented singers and dancers. It is a business.

xVEGw TIL Halle Berry refused to shower for 10 days to accurately portray a drug-addicted prostitute in Spike Lee's 1991 movie Jungle Fever. She felt sorry for co-star Samuel L. Jackson, "(I played) a foul-mouthed crack-smoking hoe. It’s true (I didn’t wash), ask Sam Jackson, he had to get a whiff of it!"
b9NnN TIL two Liverpool fans travelled to see Liverpool play against the Belgian team Genk - but by mistake, went to Ghent, 150 km away, only discovering their mistake an hour before the match. After hearing the story, the local team KAA Gent offered them to be VIP guests at an upcoming match against Genk
QNjrp TIL Austrian rightwing politician Ernst Starhemberg died from a heart attack while he assaulted a paparazzi for taking a picture of him
1MOD TIL 9% of school-aged children are diagnosed with ADHD and medicated in the US, compared with 0.5% in France. The discrepancy comes from differences in treatment. France found that changing social context, not prescribing drugs, mitigated the behavioural problems in the majority of cases.
jNNWM There's no scientific evidence to support the conventional wisdom that women wounded in combat would destroy male soldiers' morale and performance.