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TIL that there has been huge interest in the Wim Wenders film Perfect Days after it was nominated for an Academy Award, so they now offer tours of the public toilets in the Shibuya district of Tokyo

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e0jVk TIL in 1997 BBC TV soap EastEnders broadcast episodes set in Ireland, which were criticised for negatively stereotyping the Irish as dirty, rude, poor and drunk. Complaints were upheld by the British Broadcasting Standards Commission and the BBC apologised for the episodes
XadP TIL that if you confess you murdered someone to a priest, your secret is protected by Catholic law
pYEP4 TIL: AeroViroment designed and built a robotic hummingbird spy drone that can hover and fly like a hummingbird
EgMO7 TIL that Japan received its first female fighter pilot in 2018. She was inspired as a child by Top Gun but could not become a combat aviator until the JSDF began accepting female candidates in 2015.
nD7B TIL one of the leading advocates of circumcision was John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the famous breakfast cereal. He advocated the consumption of Kellogg’s corn flakes to prevent masturbation, and he believed that circumcision would be an effective way to eliminate masturbation in males.