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TIL “that’s what she said” is over 100 yrs old and Alfred Hitchcock was recorded saying a variant “as the girl said to the soldier” in 1929

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4XM0N TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General was forced to resign because she said she wasn't opposed to teaching students about masturbation in sex education, and religious conservatives were outraged
GLNJ TIL after undefeated boxer Billy Collins, Jr. was beaten so badly during his fight, his curious father insisted on shaking his opponent’s hands. He discovered the fighter had removed all his padding, and eventually led to a 2.5 year prison sentence.
yDBw TIL Christians in South Korea have been aggressively attempting to convert the nation to Christianity, even going so far as to burn Buddhist temples and decapitate statues of the Buddha
XExKQ TIL Bryan Fuller, creator of the Hannibal TV show, grew up in a region called the Lewis Clark Valley that was stalked by an actual serial killer. He says adults knew who the killer was but no one stopped him
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