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TIL that the Dutch word for fun is ‘lol’.
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TIL: Miss Cleo was only paid $1750 for two days of filming, while Psychic Readers Network made over $1 Billion using her face.
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TIL Property owners segregated Charlotte, SC to prevent the poorer white and black communities from banding together against socioeconomic inequality
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TIL Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming “they felt gay”.
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TIL that there is a card game called Mao in which new players are told only “the only rule you may be told is this one”, which means that new players have to discover the rules by themselves. The aim of the game is to be the first to get rid of all the cards in his hands without breaking any rules.
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TIL As a teenager in Bronx, Martin Scorsese frequently rented Michael Powell’s “The Tales of Hoffmann” from a store that had one copy of the reel. When it wasn’t available, the owner often told Scorsese, “that Romero kid has it,” referring to George A. Romero.