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TIL that Foot Binding, the practice of breaking and binding a woman's feet to change its shape and size, was once so widespread in China that it was estimated in the 19th century that 40~50% of all Chinese women had bound feet. Among upper class Han Chinese women, the figure was almost 100%.

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Chinese custom of applying tight binding to the feet of young girls to modify the shape and size of their feet as a status symbol and mark of beauty, practised from 10th to early 20th centuries

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I had no idea that the BBC logo is visible in the video here.
I kinda assumed that, like the audio (discounting the descriptive track for the blind of course), the entire visual experience of a scene was diegetic, barring subtitles, onscreen text and so forth.
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hmmm, must have been because of the "new Math." But wow.
Post from @todayilearned, TIL that in the 1980s, A&W launched their third-pounder burger to compete with the quarter-pounder. Confused about low sales, they conducted a study and found that around half the participants thought a third was smaller than a quarter. The burger was rebranded to the "papa burger."

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