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TIL Stalin saved the Chinese written script by talking Mao out of completely replacing it with full scale romanization

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OBBg TIL Jackie Gleason considered suing the makers of The Flintstones for ripping off The Honeymooners but he didn’t want the bad publicity from being “the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air.”
7QYZ TIL The US could make 71 Billion a year just by taxing churches
DeKY TIL in 1785 Marquis de Sade wrote a book on a twelve-meter long roll of paper while imprisoned in France. The book was assumed to be lost in a raid and wasn’t published until 1904. The book, 120 Days of Sodom, makes 50 Shades of Grey look like a nursery rhyme.
oBRpK TIL: Paul Ree, friend of Nietzsche, died by falling into a gorge, which some believe may have been suicide
oBMro TIL Paul and Linda McCartney used to take full-page advertisements showing John Lennon and Yoko Ono wearing clown costumes and wrapped up in a bag in order to mock them.