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TIL all the main voice actors in The Simpsons make the same amount of money as one another

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MeKe0 TIL of Alcuin. An English scholar who taught Charlemagne the remnants of Latin culture left in Britain. He also convinced Charles to stop forced baptisms, writing "We must appeal to the conscience, not compel it by violence. You can force people to be baptised, but you cannot force them to believe."
XNOP TIL Take This Lollipop was a 2011 interactive horror short film/Facebook app that requested access to your Facebook account, then used info from that account to fill in details of the film. Its goal was to underscore the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about oneself online.
GyLN TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup
kOQ9d TIL that Kanye considered dropping Nicki Minaj's verse from "Monster" because he felt it was too good and would overshadow the rest of the album
m1O9Y TIL about the doorway effect a known psychological event where a person's short-term memory declines when passing through a doorway moving from one location to another when it would not if they had remained in the same place.