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TIL: Until 2013, foreign chefs in Japan were legally barred from working in restaurants specializing in traditional Japanese food and could only serve foreign cuisine. Japan changed its regulations for foreign chefs after traditional Japanese cuisine won UNESCO designation.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 1:00 pm

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TIL The comedian Brad Garrett has a permanent restraining order against 84 year old Ca Equalization board member Mike Schaefer. Schaefer is barred from the MGM Grand as well.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 8:09 am

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TIL The Page Act of 1875 barred entry of Asian immigrants suspected of entering the US involuntarily or for sex work. In practice, the law targeted Chinese women by appealing to a common stereotype that they were prostitutes and dangerous to the institution of marriage.

by whatilearned March 9, 2022, 3:13 am

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TIL that the Catholic Church issued a Papal Bull in 1567 condeming bullfighting as “cruel and base spectacles of the devil and not of man.”, with the organisers and attendees barred from it under the threat of being excommunicated.

by whatilearned November 30, 2021, 11:56 am

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TIL until the 1970s, lookism in the United States was sometimes codified into law. In many jurisdictions, so-called “ugly laws” barred people from appearing in public if they had diseases or disfigurements that were considered unsightly

by whatilearned November 29, 2021, 9:45 pm

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TIL during the 1930s, George Ross Gyssling was Hitler’s man in Hollywood, placed there to ensure studios complied with the Führer and the suggested cuts or risk anti-Nazi themed films being barred in Germany. But unbeknown to his bosses, he was a double agent passing valuable intelligence to US

by whatilearned November 21, 2021, 12:30 am

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If you were magically granted the power to know the answer to any one question, about anything at all, no holds barred, what would you ask?

by QuestionGuy October 30, 2021, 5:17 am

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TIL that in the past, Harry Belafonte had been barred from the door of the world famous nightclub the Copacabana because of his color, and then later he’d be headlining the joint.

by whatilearned October 17, 2021, 12:06 pm

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TIL the name of the three barred icon often used for settings is “the hamburger button”.

by whatilearned September 20, 2021, 11:48 pm

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TIL in Japan, married couples are required to share a surname (most wives take their husbands’). However, in Quebec, wives are actually barred from taking their husbands’ surnames.

by whatilearned September 3, 2021, 8:02 pm

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TIL Jerry Lee Lewis’ mother sent him to the Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas, where he was encouraged to only sing evangelical tunes. Lewis performed a boogie-woogie rendition of “My God Is Real” at a church assembly and was immediately barred from the school

by whatilearned July 24, 2021, 8:16 pm

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TIL Elle Woods commits a huge ethical violation in “Legally Blonde” and, in real life, would’ve been barred from practicing law, & maybe subject to fines or prison time after she posed as a lawyer in attempts to get Paulette Bonafonté custody over her dog despite only being a first year law student

by whatilearned May 30, 2021, 8:13 pm

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