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TIL i learned that when Anne Hathaway was auditioning for “The Dark Knight Rises”, she thought she was auditioning for Harley Quinn

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5YMN8 TIL in 1968, a student at UPenn announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm. Thousands turned up to protest, were handed a leaflet reading: Congratulations on your anti-napalm protest. You saved the life of a dog. Now, how about saving the lives of tens of thousands of people in Vietnam.
4ko7R TIL Hideki Tojo’s dentures had "Remember Pearl Harbor" engraved into them in morse code
MeEBV TIL Charlie Chaplin was actually a pedophile who exclusively dated and married girls under 17 years of age even when he was 50 years old
GEn1 TIL that the trickle-down-economics Republicans support, also called “horse-and-sparrow theory”, is in German also named “Pferdeäpfel-Theorie”. A “Pferdeapfel” is literally horseshit.
LdEV TIL: Adding lanes to highways doesn’t reduce traffic, it increases it…a phenomenon called induced demand