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TIL Most Iranian women don’t wear niqabs. The government once considered them to be a “badge of backwardness.”

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VNn0 TIL An Alaskan man found a Soccerball that had washed up ashore with Japanese writing on it. He discovered that the ball belonged to a Japanese teenager who lost it in a Tsunami
EYkP TIL The company “Internet Eyes” provides live stream CCTV footage from stores in England so its online users can report shop-lifting for cash reward.
5VmLB TIL that the Ford F100 pickup truck used in the movie 'Mr. Majestyk' wasn't modified for stunt driving, so the Ford company used footage from the movie in their commercial for the truck.
LkAwr TIL: The original 1992 Candyman film used an on set hypnotist to help one of the actors act more realistically scared.
wZ5P TIL after WW1 the French had the railway cars that Germany surrender in stored in a museum. During WW2 when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.