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TIL in 2010, the Chinese dating game show If You Are The One spawned a very popular quote, "I would rather cry in a BMW".

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RDrQ TIL during the filming of the scene in “The Professional” involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the “police” and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras.
5eOQ TIL that the Inuit people fear people who are unhappy. They believe that unhappy people are dangerous.
9WeM TIL that the Roman Emperor Nero bought a young boy, married him, castrated him and dressed him up as a girl at public events.
4ZXo TIL that Japan’s deadliest animal is the Japanese giant hornet with around 30-40 annual fatalities, more than bear and snake deaths combined.
0wA9v TIL Aristotle believed the universe had existed forever. Something eternal is more perfect than something created. He suggested the reason we see progress was that floods, or other natural disasters, had repeatedly set civilization back to the beginning