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TIL free drink refills are banned in France

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mxEby TIL Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
WkjML TIL the original Jake from State Farm was an actual State Farm employee; new one is an actor
O7NY TIL that the world’s oldest social housing complex, “Fuggerei”, which is still inhabited today, has not raised its rent of 0.88 Euros since 1523
nWw17 TIL the movie Rollerball (2002 version) was released with a PG-13 rating but was filmed and later released in an R rated version, which contained only "3 minutes of discarded violence and nudity" not used in the PG-13 version.