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TIL All cellphones with cameras bought in Japan come with camera shuttle sounds that you cannot mute, largely to prevent people from taking upskirt photos of women

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j6G1a TIL that Ulysses S Grant was supposed to attend the play in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. John Wilkes Booth had also planned to assassinate Grant. However, at the last minute Grant decided to go to New Jersey to visit his children instead of attending the play.
00ay TIL The first man to fly a plane Orville Wright) & the first man to walk on the moon (Buzz Aldrin) were alive at the same time. Buzz was 17 when Orville died and his father was good friends with Orville.
kOg0E TIL that Roberto Benigni, writer and director of Life Is Beautiful, was inspired to make the film based on his father’s recollection of his two-year experience in a concentration camp, which he told humorously to help him cope.
4k9nX TIL French art critic Charles Baudelaire hated photography and thought it would be the death of art, saying "the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies"
GKe5 TIL AirBnB is causing entire neighborhoods to become ghost towns, as landlords push out tenants to make way for overnight visitors.