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TIL that one of the earliest examples of ASCII art appears in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll (1865): Chapter III includes "A Long Tale" in the shape of a mouse's tail.

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Mx7K TIL Charlie Chaplin once went to a Charlie Chaplin-look-alike competition and came in third.
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