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TIL: When Marianne Reddick died, her children announced the news by exulting “ding dong the witch is dead” and then chronicled her child abuse in the most scathing obituary ever printed.

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rRoZW TIL The Well Yes But Actually No meme comes from a misquoted line from the movie So You Want to Be a Pirate. The actual line said in the scene pictured by the meme is "good guess, but actually no" which is often heard as "well yes, but actually no" due to pronunciation.
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p804N TIL that The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis.
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