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TIL Bob The Builder was altered for Japanese children so they wouldn’t confuse him for a Yakuza member

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rNJKM TIL of mondegreens, a mishearing of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. The national anthem of the U.S. is highly susceptible to the creation of mondegreens, as "O say can you see" has been misinterpreted as "José, can you see", and "by the dawn's early light" as "by the donzerly light"
rgAM TIL: President James A. Garfield’s killer Charles J. Guiteau bought a revolver with an Ivory grip over a cheaper wooden grip because he thought it would look better as a museum piece after the Assassination.
8vkb TIL the package that Tom Hanks did not open in “Castaway” contained “a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone” according to Robert Zemeckis
G0l4 TIL the reason why the five-star general rank is called “General of the Army” instead of the traditional “Field Marshal” is because the Chief of Staff General George Marshall would be called “Marshal Marshall”
W7k49 TIL that FDR was 39 years old when he contracted "infantile paralysis", the contemporary name for polio