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TIL Micahel Bay won “The Whore Award” from a website for most product placement in a film.The film was Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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dM0Q TIL that people suffering from Capras syndrome hold a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
wML6 TIL That after the Napoleonic Wars the Dutch set up poverty colonies to help poor families. It was opposed by Christians because it “intervened with God’s plan”
N7AGb TIL The movie As Good As It Gets translates to Mr. Cat Poop in Hong Kong. Apparently, it came from the main character's name "Melvin", which is pronounced very similarly to the Cantonese colloquial word for cat poop.
KY9a4 TIL: Once upon a time, Japan had sewing machines you controlled with a Nintendo Game Boy
dXv7 TIL there is a Spanish guy who got a North Korean passport and runs the whole international DPRK propaganda campaign almost on his own including the Korean Friendship Association and most probably /r/pyongyang