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TIL of Kangri cancer, a squamous-cell carcinoma of the skin, found only in Kashmir in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, due to the use of a kanger, a ceramic pot covered with wicker-work, carried for warmth during cold weather. It develops from erythema ab igne, AKA hot water bottle rash.

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LQxdv TIL that Indeed.com is owned by a Japanese Company called Recruit Holdings Co. This is the same company that was involved in the infamous "Recruit Scandal," which was an insider trading and corruption scandal that forced many prominent Japanese politicians to resign in late 1980s including a PM.
j6NyN TIL that Alice Munro, co-founder of a bookstore with her then-husband Jim, started writing after reading some of the store's stock and thinking "I can write better books than this." In 2013, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
o5BE TIL durng the filming of the 1991 film “Hook”, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins decided to portray Captain Hook and Smee as a married gay couple, to which Steven Spielberg replied “this is a kids’ movie”.
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7bYM TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”