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TIL Some Chinese companies hire white actors to pretend to be foreign businessmen so that the companies can seem more connected globally.

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YprNB TIL Alanis Morissette hosted an awards show in a nude suit complete with nipples and pubic hair shortly after the Janet Jackson superbowl incident.
ADDPw Today I learned that Cpt. William Kidd was he first Pirate to be hung over the River Thames in order to scare would be Pirates as they left for the seas.
WkY9 TIL that our universe isn’t old enough for any of our red dwarf stars to have become blue dwarfs yet. So blue dwarfs are still theoretical.
VMRxm TIL Jacklyn Lucas joined the Marines at age 14 (via forged documents). He saved 3 comrades in Iwo Jima when 2 grenades landed near them, by pushing one into ash/sand and covering it with his body, and pulling the other one beneath him. One exploded. He survived and earned a Medal of Honor at age 17.
l7Er TIL that an East Germany film studio made several successful “Westerns”. The heroes were not cowboys but Native Americans.