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TIL: Shindler’s list is banned in Indonesia for being “sympathetic to the Jewish cause”

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4OGg TIL: Aaron Johnson (the lead of kickass) 23 is married to a 46 year old women and has 2 kids.
epyv4 TIL Dealey Plaza in Dallas remains virtually unchanged since 1963. There is a proposal to make Elm Street into a pedestrian promenade since tourists often wander onto the painted X where Kennedy was shot as well as an amphitheater for visitors to contemplate the assassination site
WkGd TIL that because of noise ordinance laws in Europe, club owners have created “ silent discos ” where club goers listen to music through headphones.
9w8Dp TIL that cheetah's distinctive black tear stripes that run from the eyes to the mouth, protect the eyes from the sun’s glare. It is believed that they have the same function as a rifle scope, helping cheetah to focus on it's prey at a long distance range by minimizing the glare of the sun.
oBWjL TIL Way back in 1994 a camera was trained upon a lonely fishtank within the as yet unknown company Netscape. It transmitted live images of the fishtank to the emerging new landscape known as the World Wide Web. It was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence