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TIL all public transport has been free in Luxemborg for nearly 5 years now

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5Y1D TIL Natalie Portman helped with the writing of “The Social Network” by providing inside information about the social life at Harvard because she was a Harvard student at the time Facebook first appeared there. The lines “Who was the movie star?”, “Does it matter?” in the movie refers to her.
v1bWD TIL "decimation was a form of Roman military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed.." Was checking the rona fatality rates when I saw Italy at the 10 percent milestone.
5DgP TIL Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of “Gone with the Wind,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater
YQOG TIL that in the 16th century, Christians called the Anabaptists did not partake in infant baptism, instead believing that only free-willed adults could decide for themselves to be baptized. They were persecuted and killed.
epkG6 TIL that natural disasters increase fertility rates