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9YL6X TIL Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has been described by some as India’s greatest cultural export to China since Rabindranath Tagore. Khan’s movie, Secret Superstar, was a record for an Indian movie in China, eclipsing even Hollywood hits such as James Cameron’s 2010 Avatar
woNR7 TIL Caterpillar Inc. (the machinery company) once sued a coffee shop in Santa Cruz, California called Cat and Cloud Coffee over their use of the word "CAT".
rROgw TIL that Retta, Parks and Rec's Donna Meagle, is the niece of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's first female President and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
N7y5E TIL silent movie actors were initially not given on-screen credit for their films, as studio bosses feared it would make the performers too popular, and able to demand higher wages. Actress Florence Lorence was the first to get one in 1910
4kPDR TIL that the Princess Taiping would have been the first traditional Chinese junk to sail to America and back—if it didn't get rammed by a Norwegian tanker with 30 miles left