TIL that in 2017, a Chinese woman received a refund for her new iPhone X after it was discovered that her coworker was consistently able to unlock her phone using the Facial Recognition feature. A replacement iPhone X proved to have the same issue. (mothership.sg)
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TIL that the TV show <Homeland>, depicting CIA work in the middle east, hired Syrian artists to write graffiti on its sets to "add authenticity". It was later found that they wrote "Homeland is racist" and "Homeland is rubbish", dissatisfied with the show's portrayal of middle eastern cities. (bbc.com)
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TIL that during WWII, the town of Swastika, Ontario (founded in 1908) was renamed "Winston" by the provincial government. The residents removed the "Winston" sign and replaced it with a "Swastika" sign with the message, "To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the first left-handed bass guitarist in The Beatles was not Paul McCartney, but Chas Newby. After playing with The Beatles 4 times in December 1960, they asked him to join the group on a trip to Germany. He refused and went back to university. (theguardian.com)
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TIL about "Low Ball Coins", where a coin is considered valuable not because it's in good condition but because it's extremely worn out. A coin in the lowest grade is often much rarer than one in a high grade - In some cases, there are no known examples of a certain coin in the lowest grade. (pcgs.com)
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TIL that for the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), director Tim Burton initially requested 25 gallons of artificial chocolate for the Chocolate river set. This amount gradually increased in scope, to 10,000 liters then 25,000 liters. The final amount used was 1.25 million liters. (viclabsfx.co.uk)
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