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TIL Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji

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e45D TIL The Director of the Truman Show had the idea of installing a video camera in every theater where the movie played and having the projectionist cut from the film to the video of the audience
LkZj0 TIL that while there is a large focus on the phenomenon of suicide in Japan / Japanese culture, they actually have lower suicide rates than Belgium, India, South Korea, Russia, and 20+ other countries. Their rate is barely higher than the United States.
4gYb TIL Russell Crowe was born in New Zealand not Australia. However, despite living most of his life in Australia, identifying as Australian, and appearing on Australian stamps, he was refused Australian citizenship in 2006 and 2013.
O1DR TIL That there’s and 80 year old woman who makes Skyrim videos and has over 150,000 Subcribers
MeP6b TIL on Kinmen (a small group of islands off the coast of mainland China controlled by Taiwan) knives are made from spent artillery shells. "Kinmen knives" were originally made from Allied artillery during WWII; blacksmiths now use shells fired from mainland China during the 1950s-1970s.