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TIL that originally the Barbie movie was supposed to come out in 2018, with Amy Schumer as Barbie.

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b6YX0 TIL that during a 2002 rally race, driver Markko Märtin was holding a slight lead when the hood of his car flipped open, covering his windshield. Despite having only having 30m of visibility, he continued driving the next 20km with the bonnet blocking his view, and eventually won the race.
Orb7 TIL that the ancient Greeks used the term barbarian for anyone who didn’t speed Greek, including ancient Egyptians, as another language sounded like ‘bar bar bar’ to the Greeks which lead to the term 'barbarian’
4XAMb TIL of the Rosenhan Experiment, in which a psychologist David Rosenhan and seven other pseudo-patients faked their mental illnesses and gained admission into various psychiatric hospitals, as a criticism of the methods of psychiatric diagnosis.
rRgxx TIL Kim Jong Travels with his own toilet to prevent his poop falling into wrong hands. The waste contains Information about his health status.
JYZgm TIL about Ern Malley, a fictitious Australian poet created to ridicule modernist poetry. A modernist journal devoted an issue to his poems and the editor was sued for immoral material. A policeman said "I don't know what 'incestuous' means, but I think there is a suggestion of indecency about it."