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TIL Pinocchio was originally a serial where Pinocchio was generally a rebellious whiny brat, Geppetto was eaten by a shark, the cricket was squashed to death, Pinocchio was hanged by thieves, and his nose growing was a minor point happening only twice and not always due to lying

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4B76 TIL Gandhi believed that German Jews should have committed collective suicide
J17jl TIL - The Onion submitted a 23-page Amicus Curiae brief to the US Supreme Court in 2022 for the case Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, in support of the protection of parody as free-speech. In the text, The Onion openly parodies the Court and says it is "staffed entirely by total Latin dorks".
pYyLA TIL that the first documented infringement of the Volstead Act was less than an hour after it came into force, when $100,000 worth of whisky was stolen by armed men.
8a8B4 TIL If you're murdered in America, there's a 1 in 3 chance that the police won't identify your killer
neJVG TIL of Latasha Harlins a 15 year old African American girl who was shot and killed by a Korean store owner in 1991. Despite being convicted the store owner received no jail time. Many people cite this case as one of the causes of the LA riots.