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TIL about the concept "Mise an abyme" which is is a term borrowed from heraldry and later adopted in literary, artistic, and media studies to describe a technique where a work contains a smaller version of itself, often recursively like a painting within a painting.

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neD9r TIL that Nosferatu makes a second appearance in Spongebob in a 2018 episode called “The Night Patty.” This is over 15 years after his first Spongebob appearance in “Graveyard Shift” and nearly 100 years after his first appearance in “Nosferatu.”
WkkM9 TIL that "sex changes are not effective", according to researchers, who say there is no evidence that these operations improve the lives of transexuals, many of whom remain suicidal and severely distressed after surgery.
DQPJD TIL that the city of York, England, had a store called "Ghost Merchants", specialized in the craft and sell of "York Ghosts", little figures of ghosts decorated with colors and details, a tradition that trace back to the victorian age.
MeNVV TIL that in the aftermath of the Great Japan Earthquake of 1923, when fire broke out around the city of Tokyo, 44,000 people went to the river to escape the flames, only to be closed in by the flames on all sides. Almost all were then, in a single moment, incinerated by a 300ft tall fire tornado
PYlZZ TIL in 1840's New York, a man would walk up to strangers, acting as an old acquaintance. Gaining their trust, he asked, "Have you the confidence to trust me with your watch until tomorrow?" He would never return. When arrested, he was dubbed the "Confidence Man", the origin of the term "Con Man".