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TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos

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78Epp TIL about "Olive Jinja" (オリーブ神社), a shinto shrine in the island of Shodo, Japan. Modeled after a greek classic temple, this is because the island was the first place in Japan were the olives successfully grew. The shrine is dedicated to the happiness and the peace
oRDlW TIL that Italian operas used to include an unimportant song sung by a side character to give the audience a last chance to get up a buy snacks while they were singing. These songs were called sorbet arias since sorbet was commonly sold at opera houses.
A97a TIL Rohan Marley, the son of Bob Marley, played football at the University of Miami alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Ray Lewis. He led the team in tackles (95) in 1993.
W79j4 TIL a Goldman Sachs report believes close to 300 million jobs will be lost to AI. It could replace a quarter of the workforce in US and Europe.
OG4Ng TIL Paul Thomas Anderson contacted Warren Beatty about playing Jack Horner, a veteran adult film director, in his movie Boogie Nights. After 2 weeks of discussion, Anderson realized the 60-yr-old wanted to play 18-yr-old adult film star Dirk Diggler. When asked if he'd play Horner, Beatty declined.