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TIL that Netflix’s catalog has shrunk by more than 2,000 titles in the past couple of years

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N9E8 TIL that sword swallowing is not an illusion of any kind: the performer actually pushes the sword down their oesophagus and into their stomach. 29 deaths resulting from sword swallowing have been reported since 1880.
GAMd4 TIL Ke Huy Quan, a prominent child actor who played Short Round in Indiana Jones, left acting in his 20s because he couldn’t find any work as an Asian actor. After a 19 year hiatus, he came back into the industry and won an Oscar for his supporting role in Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2023.
Zp8ov TIL that prairie dogs have a complex language where they can form sentences
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0kLj TIL giving the Nazi salute in modern day Germany is punishable for up to 3 yrs in prison.