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TIL 40% of successful people consider themselves frauds

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x6Mv1 TIL that on the 30th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Massacre in 2021, searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft's Bing search engine worldwide. Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error".
ddr9 TIL that Mark Twain published two dime novels, Tom Sawyer - Detective, and Tom Sawyer Abroad, to cash in on the popularity of pulp fiction and Jules Verne-style science fiction, some two decades after the title character’s debut
nWDrB TIL that the crucifixion scene of an Italian movie about the story of Barabbas (the criminal freed instead of Jesus) was recorded on February 15th 1961 during an actual total Solar eclipse.
V4w0 TIL: Linje Akvavit, a flavored liquor from Norway, is shipped from Norway to Australia and back before being bottled. The sloshing and temperature changes the liquor experiences on the ship imparts certain flavors to the beverage. Akvavit is traditionally served as a holiday drink.
ZpVyv TIL the production for Mork and Mindy had to hire a censor that spoke 4 languages to keep track of Robin Williams secretly trying to slip in swear words in other languages during filming of the show