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TIL Morgan Freeman wears gold earrings based on an old sailors tradition. They were earrings in order to cover their burial in a forgein land

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D1emV TIL Indigenous Native Americans were not granted US citizenship until 1924
p81OQ TIL Anne Bancroft, who played older cougar seductress Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate", was only 36 during filming... barely 6 years older than star Dustin Hoffman.
e0D9E TIL of the Knights of Malta, a sovereign entity (part of the U.N. General Assembly) with 13,500 knights, 40,000 doctors and a further 80,000 volunteers. They have only 2 official citizens, but they still issue passports, coins and postage stamps despite having no physical land or territory
XkQP TIL In 2010 Feminist Claire Perry unsuccessfully tried to pressure ISPs into automatically blocking pornography, forcing users to “opt-in”. She is the current ‘Porn Advisor’ to David Cameron
WkxyA TIL no one - not even Chinese citizens - can own property in China forever, because the government owns all property permanently. They can purchase a lease for Chinese real estate, which is good for 70 years on residential property and 50 years for commercial property.