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TIL Iceland banned strip clubs in 2010 because it “recognizes women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.”

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JYv9V TIL While the film "Entebbe", which was about an airliner hijacking, was being filmed at Malta International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209, an actual hijacked flight, landed at the airport. Scenes from the hostages exiting the Afriqiyah plane were filmed, edited and inserted into the movie.
GRLg TIL Japan not only requires identifying badges on cars for new drivers, but also for the elderly, handicapped, and hearing impaired
j5PM TIL the first president of Zimbabwe was named President Banana
XEp5R TIL in 1970 film critic Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for ‘Beyond the Valley of the Dolls’. One review described it as “a treat for the emotionally retarded, sexually inadequate and dimwitted. It is a grievously sick melange of hypermammalian girls, obvious double-entendres and sadistic violence”
m1Njy TIL about John Surratt, who fled America following his assistance in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He served with the Pontifical Zouaves in the Papal States before being recognized and was sent back to the U.S. He was released following a mistrial.