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TIL that Robert Englund made a cameo appearance as Freddy Krueger on the Japanese comedy show "Kato-Chan Ken-Chan Gokigen".

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pYagZ TIL that Kurt Cobain would find the value of his guitar hilarious. On MTV Unplugged, he joked about a rep from the Lead Belly estate who wanted to sell Kurt Lead Belly's guitar for $500,000. The guitar Kurt's holding while making that joke sold for $6 million in 2020.
mQR TIL That American soldiers in WW2 used the challenge “flash”, “thunder”, “welcome” because Germans could not pronounce the “th” or “w” sound appropriately
6E1LX TIL about Chris Lee Burden, an American performance artist most well known for his work Shoot (1971), in which he had a friend shoot him in the arm using a small-caliber rifle.
bP7 TIL Scientist in Nevada are creating sheep that are part human with the main purpose “to produce a source of organs, especially livers, to transplant someday into humans.”
jNXXX TIL about Typhoid Mary; a cook identified as a carrier with no symptoms of Typhoid Fever, who infected over 50 people and killed three. She was forcibly quarantined for nearly 30 years.