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TIL Christine Cavanaugh, the voice actress for Chuckie Finster and Dexter died a year ago today of undisclosed causes.

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8eLXZ TIL of Chamoy Thipyaso who holds the record for the longest non-life-imprisonment prison sentence of 141078 years. She received the sentence for involvement in a pyramid scheme worth an estimated $200 million to $301 million.
1apoX TIL that in 2017, the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber allowed schools to stage their own version of his new musical ‘School of Rock’ for free, in a bid to tackle what he sees as a decline in arts education.
J1rAQ TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a "hissing street pedlar" and an "enemy of the human race". He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.
6PDl TIL in America, a recurring joke in Futurama is that French is a dead language by the 31st century; in the French dub, however, German is the dead language.
wNQ7 TIL that in 2010, Taco Bell secretly reduced the sodium content of its food at 150 Dallas area restaurants by 23%. Without telling anyone, they replaced the salt with “other spices and other ingredients.” Two months later, they had received exactly zero complaints about the changes.