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TIL that before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, prostitutes enrolled in free English classes to improve their hosting skills and ability to make more money off their customers

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RL1l TIL Vatican officials are changing the way they think about same sex couples. They are telling the Catholic Church to “welcome gays”
dvNd TIL when the allied forces were signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the Canadian general blind in one eye mistakenly signed below his signature line, forcing every person after him to sign one space below. The Japanese found it unacceptable.
1axyO TIL that Roald Dahl author of charlie and the chocolate factory and Matilda was the author behind the screenplay for "You only live twice" despite having no experience writing a screenplay except for a movie unfinished called "The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling"
69XGl TIL that two years before filming his famous unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, Nosferatu, director F. W. Murnau filmed an unauthorized adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide called The Head of Janus with future Dracula star Bela Lugosi in a supporting role
XEemE TIL that Trent Reznor felt his song "A Warm Place" was too good to be his own work. After the song had been released, he was horrified to discover that he had indeed copied the melody from a piece by David Bowie called "Crystal Japan", written for a Japanese gin advert. Bowie found this hilarious.