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TIL in Die Hard Bruce Willis wears 34 different undershirts each with different levels of grime

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8aGgX TIL that several famous directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon were all influenced by the anime Cowboy Bebop.
Br7Lk TIL that a British ship deliberately threw slaves into the ocean in order to cash in on the insurance of the slaves.
XZe6 TIL that you aren’t supposed to walk through the gates of a Japanese shrine, the gates are reserved for the Shinto gods so you have to walk around them (unless you are in fact a Shinto god in the guise of a tourist).
kLO4 TIL students from Johns Hopkins took advantage of their professor’s test curve by unanimously boycotting the final. They all received 100s.
kOEee TIL that waving arms and screaming are not signs of drowning, but of aquatic distress. Actual drowning is often “quieter”; no call for help, no waving arms, just an upright body and head tilted back. Thus many people fail to recognize when a person is actually drowning.