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8xPZ TIL of the 2003 Iranian film, Crimson Gold. The lead role of a suicidal, schizophrenic pizza delivery man was played by an actual paranoid schizophrenic pizza delivery man, who had never acted before. The film was banned in Iran for being “too dark”.
ANpB TIL that in China, strippers were often hired for funerals until recently
7rAkx TIL for the role of Fin Tutuola in the show Law and Order: SVU, when Ice-T asked Producer Dick Wolf how it was to be performed, he was told to "do what Ice-T would do if he were a cop."
GAXZ1 TIL that it is extremely difficult to measure (short) time scales
E1GoV TIL that in FY2017 New York City paid $335 million to settle 6,546 lawsuits against the NYPD