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TIL that in 1929 Alfred Hitchcock made the first recorded “That’s what she said” joke during the filming of his movie; Blackmail.

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7reer TIL Kintsugiis the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with precious metals. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
MeJ8W TIL of Bulgaria’s role during World War II as a part of the Axis. Did not participate in the war vs the Soviet Union, reluctant to send Jews to the Holocaust, had no resistance to the incoming Red Army to “liberate” them in Sept. 1944, and ended the war with slightly more land!
4XkLa TIL that Australia has the highest rate of private incarceration per capita of any country in the world.
5VJAk TIL that to deter "train surfers", Indonesia installed concrete balls on chains above the train tracks after earlier trials of barbed wire, hosing down riders with red paint, and threatening them with dogs all failed
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