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TIL that China’s parliament has about 100 billionaires

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B4Je TIL that while he was writing the score for The Last Samurai, Hans Zimmer felt that his knowledge of Japanese music was very limited even after doing extensive research. When he took what he had written to Japan for feedback he was shocked when he was asked how he knew so much about Japanese music.
69v8m TIL in 1972, astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Scottish town of Langholm, where he was read a 400-year-old law declaring any “Armstrong” that enters the town must be hanged
4dwJ TIL that the word “utopia” literally means “not a place.”
WkL8N TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes
OZNa TIL the Haymarket Affair (1886) was a protest over labor and police brutality. It ended in a bombing, police firing into crowds, and the wrongful sentencing of 7 men to death.