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TIL Brad Pitt was banned from China for nearly 20 years after starring in Seven Years in Tibet

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jNDJj TIL of the Falcon Sex Hat, a hat that allows a falcon to have sex with a breeders head to collect the semen.
6rXY TIL Japanese uses a large number of wasei-eigo, or English-based invented words and phrases that don’t exist in English, such as “cherry boy” for a male virgin, “virgin road” for the wedding aisle, “skin-ship” for physical intimacy, and “year of the coach” for Coach of the Year.
dDaO7 TIL there is a Blockbuster store that is still in operation in Oregon, US. In 2020 it became the world's last remaining store.
9Y7ED TIL California was named after a mythical island of black women who kept man-eating griffins as pets
OoyQ7 TIL The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed more people than all the battles in WWI combined