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TIL that, when John Kricfaluci was asked if his cartoons Ren and Stimpy were gay, he replied “I don’t know if they’re gay or not, that’s their own business.”

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1vB4 TIL Near the end of WWII, after viewing films of Nazi concentration camps, many German prisoners in the U.S. formally burned their uniforms and volunteered to fight in the war against Japan.
xVbL5 TIL in most of the USA it is illegal to buy a car directly from the manufacturer. You have to go through a car dealership where they charge even more money.
R8e4 TIL Fedoras originated as a popular fashion among women’s-rights activists.
Lk15P TIL that in the late 1700s and 1800s, there was widespread panic about the evils of book-reading, which was described as “an outrage on decency and common sense”. People were concerned that avid novel-readers were ‘addicted’ and were becoming anti-social.
9YZd6 TIL A Czech nuclear power plant held a bikini contest to choose new interns, sidestepping the normal way of vetting candidates by going off of their knowledge of nuclear physics.