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TIL that telling other people about your goals gives the illusion you’re closer to achieving them, making you less likely to complete them

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NXLKQ TIL that Tobe Hooper hoped the original cut of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre would get a PG rating due to the lack of visible gore. It received an X rating, only receiving an R once several minutes were cut. Certain theaters were told by police to not show the film or they could face morality charges
yVd8M TIL that in 1934 a board game called Toward Soviet America was the opposite of Monopoly. The goal was to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. The game did not catch on.
78Ro7 TIL that in order to fulfill his record contract, singer Andrew Eldritch released one album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value – Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner".
NMyb TIL Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew’s house in Liverpool, so the nephew moved to the United States to fight with the Allies.
nWVeY TIL that the last warlord of China lived until 2001. He fought both Japan and Chinese Communists; he later converted to Christianity and moved to Hawaii, where he died at age 100. Some of his children still live in the U.S. and are now presumably Americans.