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TIL About Adolf Wölfli, a psychotic mental patient who spontaneously took up drawing to calm himself. His work included a monumental and epic illustrated book of 45 volumes, 25,000 pages, 1,600 illustrations, and 1,500 collages in which he narrated his own imaginary life story.

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16nJD TIL about Gakkou no Kaidan (Ghost Stories), an anime that didn't do well in Japan, so they gave the american dub free reign to do whatever they wanted, and thus they created the most offensive anime dub of all time.
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XEOND TIL A computer programmer who was dismissed from his job wrote a computer program that deleted software critical to the company's operations and caused the loss of more than $10 million in sales and contracts.
78aGZ TIL that Gene Roddenberry had an open relationship with both Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett.
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