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TIL Michael Jackson explored the possibility of opening Neverland to visitors like a museum but its location and the applicable zoning regulations prohibit opening it up to the public

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R7Ze8 TIL In 2011, Jackie Chan codirected and starred in a film called 1911 to commemorate the centennial of the Xinhai Revolution, which ended two centuries of the monarchal system in China. Chan played military commander Huang Xing and has two battles
W7wnB TIL India has "marriage brokers" to match up familiries. The industry is worth more than 250 billion rupees, ~= 3 billion USD
4k0gg TIL that the Association of German National Jews was a group of Jewish Germans who supported Hitler in the early 1930s hoping for assimilation, but its members were later persecuted and sent to concentration camps.
EgGJo TIL: That your stomach has a esophageal sphincter and can relate to acid reflux and heartburn.
e0AgE TIL that David Bowie did not suffer from heterochromia. Rather, he had a condition known as anisocoria, where one pupil is permanently more dilated than the other, as a result of a fistfight with a friend in his youth. That friend was George Underwood, his lifelong artistic partner.