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TIL that the film Some Like It Hot was made while the Hays Code was still operating and the film was one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

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A4ro TIL half of British women cannot identify the vagina on a medical diagram.
b9AK9 TIL in 1851 because it was too expensive to import ice from the United States and Norway, an Australian man invented an ice-making machine and its first application, aside from making ice, was to cool beer. He was James Harrison, "the father of refrigeration"
78LOp Til that workers in every canadian province earn less than workers in the US.
woAQW TIL that, in 1947, there was a proposal to create an independent united Bengali state instead of partitioning Bengal between India and Pakistan. It was not accepted, though it did have some support. (In 1971, east Bengal, also known as East Pakistan, acquired its independence as Bangladesh.)
GokE TIL there used to be an instrument called a hurdy-gurdy. Apparently, it was used for “medieval raves.”