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TIL an American charity pays drug addicts $300 to get sterilized

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R7BLl TIL Ching Chow, a comic strip that was filled with stereotypical Chinese jokes managed to stay in papers until 1990 and was popular among gamblers as they thought it contained secrets for sports betting
VBrWm TIL that Zohran Mamdani's Mother, Golden Lion winner & Oscar, BAFTA, & Golden Globe nominee, Mira Nair, was offered to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), and was convinced by Zohran to turn it down in favor of making The Namesake (2006) and to cast Kal Penn in it.
p8JKN TIL Bong Joonho has won every Korean film award he's ever been nominated for. 55 out of 55.
p8VO4 TIL In 1612 at the funeral of Henry Fredrick, Prince of Wales a naked man ran through the crowd of mourners claiming he was the ghost of the recently deceased Prince.
dDWPd TIL: Lo Fu-Chu was a mid level mafia member, jailed for 3 years, started a new criminal organization called "Celestial Alliance", he then dabbled in legitimate businesses and became powerful government official where he attempted to strangle a coworker. He is now on the run for insider trading.