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TIL The book 'A Clockwork Orange' Had Two Different Versions, an American one and a European one, because the US publisher thought Americans would find the the idea of a criminal being redeemed unrealistic

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5YeB8 TIL that Wilhelm II, leader of Germany in WW1, sent a telegram to Hitler in 1940 congratulating him on invading the Netherlands, and hoping the German monarchy would be restored. Hitler, upon reading the telegram, said to his valet, "What an idiot!"
DQg8p TIL that there is an Indian metal ban called Bloodywood, and that when they went on tour they called it "Raj Against the Machine"
ONg TIL that in a 2008 survey 62% of Egyptian men freely admited perpetrating sexual harassment, with 98% of foreign women claiming they had experienced harassment
5V9Nr TIL FDA guidelines allow bottled water to be labeled as artesian, groundwater, distilled, deionized, reverse osmosis, mineral, purified, sparkling, spring and/or sterile
v1PJx TIL Jelly Roll Morton, at the age of 14 tricked his great-grandmother into believing he was a night watchman at a barrel house when in fact he was working as a piano player in a brothel. In that atmosphere, he often sang smutty lyrics; he took the nickname "Jelly Roll", which was slang for vagina.