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TIL Liam Neeson only agreed to sign on for Taken 3 “as long as nobody gets taken”

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M1EA TIL that Victorian market sellers used back slang (reversing the letters in words) in order to talk behind customers’ backs, giving birth to words such as ‘yob.’
xMdb TIL that a woman in India once calculated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers - 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 - correctly in just 28 seconds.
1aO7D TIL the USA only ranks #43 in a list of countries by home ownership rate (64.5%). Romania is 1st with 96.4%.
8avEG TIL Australian pornographic film actress Angela white has an Honours Degree in gender studies, and for her honours thesis she conducted qualitative research into female experiences in the Australian pornography industry. She plans on going back to school to complete her PhD.
KYBlG TIL there's an 18-hole golf course INSIDE the Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Jakarta. It was used for Indonesia Open