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TIL that in the city of Iruma, Japan keeps track of their elderly citizen who have dementia by having placing a waterproof QR sticker on their fingernails or toenails

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R5gDw TIL Tolkien wanted to create what we would nowadays call a transmedia multiverse. "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme. The cycles should be linked and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd."
5rDr TIL The revolution that transformed Brazil into a republic was so uneventful that the few witnesses present didn’t even know it happened and the dethroned Emperor didn’t even care.
NX8vM TIL the song “Hello ma Baby” from the old cartoons was the first popular song about the telephone and was about a man dating a lady over the phone without having ever met her
Kx4R TIL that comedian Gracie Allen kept her age a secret, even from husband George Burns. She joked that she was born in July 1906 and the birth certificate was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 (Allen: “It was an awfully big earthquake”). The US census proves she was born in 1895.
jM8a Today I learned that the monks from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail are chanting “Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requim,” which in English means “Holy Jesus, Lord, grant them rest.” It’s from “Dies Irae” (“Judgement Day”), a 13th century Latin hymn that has been set to music by dozens of famous composers.