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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."

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PYAJV TIL About Frank Foley- the “British Schindler”. An intelligence officer in Berlin before WWII, he worked as a passport officer and is credited with saving “tens of thousands” of Jews by stamping as many of their passports as he could. He also went into internment camps and hid Jews in his home.
lo0G1 TIL there was a theme park based on the life and works of Charles Dickens.
Lkmw0 TIL that Chloe Ayling was hired for a gig, was abducted in Milan, Italy, was told she would be sold as a sex slave, had rumors spread about her in 2017 that she faked it by the Daily Mail and is still accused of faking the abduction though her abductor was sentenced for 16 years in 2018.
VBK80 TIL that Project Stargate was a CIA plan to use psychic powers for spying
X04lj TIL that the first car to achieve a land speed record of 62mph, (100kph), was a Belgian designed electric vehicle in 1899.