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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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5VD4P TIL that back in the day, marijuana was in all kinds of medicines, like stuff for headaches, pain, and even depression. It was everywhere until the 1930s, when the government decided to freak out about it and make it illegal.
eplY4 TIL that the vicuña, a small camelid related to the llama and native to Peru, has the finest and most expensive wool in the world. The Incas valued it so highly that it was illegal for anyone but royalty to wear it.
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xxYw TIL of Anscombe’s Quartet, four datasets that reveal the folly of relying only on statistical analysis. The differences between the datasets is easily revealed by graphing the data, but they all have nearly identical properties (means, variances, correlations, linear regression).
neerb TIL in 2010 North Korea faked a TV broadcast of the World Cup showing that they won the gold medal