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TIL In North Korea western films are only available at private showings to high-ranking Party members, although the 1997 film Titanic is frequently shown to university students as an example of Western culture

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LQrym TIL Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street," became the wealthiest woman of the early 20th century, amassing a $100M fortune (~$2.7B today) by investing in real estate, railroads, and mortgages. Green was also a miser who wore the same black dress daily, ate only oatmeal, and lived in cheap housing.
1PnX TIL the original version of Monopoly was designed to show that rental properties make tenants impoverished
6Ewxw TIL the Atakapa people in SW Louisiana survived hurricanes by tying themselves up to live oak trees using grape and rattan vines. In 1830, the Atakapa begged a colonist to tie himself and his family high in a live oak tree for their safety; they refused and he and his family drowned.
le41 TIL In 2009, Stanford MBA students were given $5 and told the generate as much revenue as possible. Some teams bought lottery tickets or used slot machines but the winning team made $650 by selling its presentation slot to a small local company
EgrPw TIL the Japanese history textbook controversies involve controversial content in government-approved history textbooks used in the secondary education of Japan. The controversies primarily concern the nationalist right efforts to whitewash the actions of the Empire of Japan during World War II.