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TIL Japan measures its cultural output in “Gross National Cool”

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0wjNj TIL that in 1964 The Beatles helped fight racism by refusing to perform to a segregated audience, one of the first major steps to abolishing the rule
4Xn56 TIL Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) has a degree in electrical engineering from Oxford
e0Nm4 TIL of the Sator Square, a palindrome word square found in the ruins of Pompeii. The five words carved into it, "SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS" can be read top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, left-to-right, or right-to-left.
X00EX TIL Roger Bacon who lived from around 1214 to 1292. In his Epistola de Secretis Operibus, he wrote: “Cars can be made so that without animals they will move with unbelievable rapidity,” and “flying machines can be constructed by which artificial wings are made to beat the air like a flying bird.”
KYAXE TIL All giant pandas in zoos around the world are on loan from China