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TIL Finland's 'housing first' policy requires the government to give people living on the street a free house before any financial aid. This model has proven to get people on their own feet much quicker and is being replicated by other European countries.

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vP8gL TIL that Eminem was offered the lead role in the film "Elysium" but reportedly turned it down, leading director to instead cast Matt Damon.
Z8o0B TIL, that the N. Korean Air Force lacks enough jet fuel to train pilots using aircraft, and instead pilots hold a cardboard cutout of an instrument panel while another pilot walks in front of them moving a toy model of the aircraft.
x6rB7 TIL that the star of the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy," Nǃxau ǂToma, let his $300 paycheck blow away in the wind because he allegedly did not understand money. The movie made ~$90 million in 4 years. He had also only ever seen 3 white people before being cast in the movie.
JY1Mj TIL that there's a hybrid genre of music between Jazz and Hip Hop.
Z84VQ TIL of an early-twentieth-century novelist named Robert Walser who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, committed to a sanatorium and largely forgotten until it was discovered that the tiny, supposedly schizophrenia-induced markings on scraps of paper were actually a novel deciphered in the 1970's