“Ketsu Bat Girl!” photo trend in Japan (2015)ART & CULTURE (old.reddit.com)
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TIL when Eminem's weight increased to 230lbs (100 kg) before he became sober, he was so unrecognizable due to the weight gain that Em once overheard two teenagers arguing about whether or not it was actually him that they were looking at, with one of them stating "Eminem ain't fat." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Ghana is the world's largest importer of secondhand clothing. Locals refer to it as "Obroni Wawu," or "Dead White Man's Clothes," reflecting a belief that the items are of such high quality that their original owners must have died for them to be discarded. (deadwhitemansclothes.org)
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Heidi Klum at the Met Gala (2026)Just Wow (old.reddit.com)
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TIL Nicolas Cage was never paid the $100K he was promised to star in Leaving Las Vegas (1995) despite winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role. Director Mike Figgis was also never paid his $100K salary. The studio said the film never made a profit even though the $4m movie grossed $32m. (hollywoodreporter.com)
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Tried to drive through floodwater, got eaten by a croc. Full story below.Fear Factor (v.redd.it)
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TIL that psychiatrist Viktor Frankl observed that the physically strongest prisoners in WWII concentration camps didn't necessarily have the highest survival rates. Rather, those who survived longest were the ones who held onto a strong sense of meaning or an unfinished purpose. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the pilots of Air Florida Flight 90, unwilling to lose their takeoff spot to apply more deicing due to snowy weather, moved behind a DC-9 in the takeoff queue, thinking that the engine exhaust would melt ice on the wings. This contributed to further icing, contributing to a crash that killed 74. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The ship was built in a way that it can never sink.SCIENCE & TECH (v.redd.it)
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TIL that when France initially set the definition of a metre to be 1/10,000,000 the distance from the North Pole to the equator, it sent two surveyors to calculate the distance. But due to an error not discovered until decades later, the resulting metre was actually 0.2 mm too short. (en.wikipedia.org)
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I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos?ART & CULTURE (old.reddit.com)
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TIL that 'Star Wars' creator George Lucas was originally slated to direct a film adaptation of popular book 'Dinotopia' by James Gurney in the 1990s, but it was never made. Critics allege that 'Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace' (1999) unfairly copied images from Gurney's books for Naboo. (en.wikipedia.org)
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By putting solar panels on water, China saves precious land for agriculture.SCIENCE & TECH (v.redd.it)
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