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TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis once took a 5 year hiatus from filmmaking by moving to Italy and becoming a cobbler’s apprentice.

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9Yrbp TIL that there were more ancient capitals of Russia (though the country had another name then) and that scientists don't know which of two cities, Staraya Ladoga or Velikiy Novgorod, was really the capital. But what's more interesting is that you can see what archeologists have dig out at the both!
O5pg TIL that Octopus wrestling was a popular sport in the 1960s.
XEXYD TIL Mexican drug cartels are fighting over a multi-billion avocado industry.
rRxwW TIL that when Apple ads claimed the iPhone X took “studio quality photos” there were complaints to the UK’s advertising standards about misleading statements. These were was rejected because there isn’t a technical definition of what “studio quality photos” is: it’s completely subjective.
nemE9 TIL In the 1960's McDonald's was prepared to abandon its logo of the golden arches of the letter M, but psychologist Louis Cheskin successfully urged the company to maintain this branding because of their "Freudian symbolism of a pair of nourishing breasts."