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TIL that five years after Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar, Danny Boyle still goes to India once a year to check in on the child actors.

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Dymr TIL - Nature is so good at evolving critters that aren’t crabs into crab-like things there’s a term for it: Carcinisation
oBWv7 TIL the term “Suspension of disbelief,” defined as a "willingness to suspend one's critical faculties . . . for the sake of enjoyment" refers to one of Aristotle’s principles of theater in which the audience accepts fiction as reality so as to experience a catharsis.
e0EjE TIL that in 1625, a restoration of the Sistine Chapel was carried out by Simone Lagi, the "resident gilder", who wiped the ceiling with linen cloths and cleaned it by rubbing it with bread. His report states that the frescoes "were returned to their previous beauty without receiving any harm".
8anWK TIL that US president George H.W. Bush narrowly avoided being eaten by Japanese soldiers during World War II in late 1944 when he was 20 years old. It is known as Chichijima incident.
4XBJR TIL In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than in shark attacks in the past 100 years.