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TIL in Spirited Away, Miyazaki based the river spirit on his own experience of cleaning a polluted river

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gMjMX TIL Jonny Lee Miller (Sickboy in "Trainspotting") is the grandson of Bernard Lee, who played M in the first James Bond films.
7rBLb TIL the Five Love Languages. It outlines five different general ways that romantic partners express and experience love, which Chapman calls "love languages". They are acts of service, gift-giving, physical touch, quality time, and words of affirmation.
9wAnm TIL that, inspired by the Maginot Line in France, the British built a defensive network in Hong Kong. Called the Gin Drinkers Line or Oriental Maginot Line, it was designed to hold off a Japanese invasion for six months. Hit by understaffing and a malaria outbreak, it only lasted two days.
JYRLk TIL Playboy featured a transgender model in 1991
wxJ8 TIL that the English word “taboo” comes from the Polynesian word “tapu”, which means too sacred to touch and therefore off limits