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TIL that bonsai trees have to be planted off centre because the centre symbolizes where heaven and earth meet and therefore should be left unoccupied.

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pJp TIL that the Beatles had to dodge jellybeans thrown at them on stage because fans heard George Harrison liked them
0wXx1 TIL of Hachikō, the legendary Japanese Akita dog who stood waiting for his owner for over nine years after his owner died at his workplace. He would wait for him every day until he himself died.
N75LM TIL there was much pressure from Columbia Pictures for the "Men in Black" music video to help the movie succeed. With just weeks before the film’s release, Will Smith devised a last minute idea to do a dance-off with a CGI alien. Smith spent late nights learning the steps and they shot it in 4 days.
R5NK8 TIL about the 1945 Chenogne massacre, where in reprisal of a similar act by the Nazis, US forces massacred 80 German POWs using machine guns
jxjN TIL that in a siege against a gallic city, Julius Caesar actually built a second wall around the city to keep its occupants from leaving.