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TIL Apple Banned Taiwanese Flag Emoji From iPhones in Hong Kong

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ZpD0v TIL that Warner Bros. (as a whole) is actually older than Disney (as a whole, too), even if they share the same "birth year" (1923, tbe). [Warner Bros. is born on Apr. 4, while Disney is born on Oct. 3.]
xVB9o TIL there's a Code of Ethics & Integrity for Spiritual Practitioners/Guides
WRX8 TIL that, through most of western history, larger-than-average penises were considered embarrassing and barbaric; the modern idea that ‘bigger is better’, beginning in the late 19th century, was a side effect of pornography
GAkwG TIL - Phrenology is a pseudo-science, where adherents think that measuring the bumps on peoples skulls can predict things about their mental traits
78YrP TIL there is a stable population of rhesus macaque monkeys in central Florida. They were released on an island in a swamp as part of a jungle cruise attraction in 1938, but escaped the island because the tour operator didn’t know they could swim.