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TIL the longest game of telephone (Chinese whispers) started with “Together we can make a world of difference” and turned into “Everybody is evil” and then eventually just “Haaaaaa!”.

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JYomj TIL Before the ~1870s, pink was associated with boys and blue was associated with girls. Blue was viewed as a feminine color because of its association with the Virgin Mary while pink was seen as a lighter shade of red, and therefore more masculine.
rRXJ1 TIL Wang Meng was sent to Xinjiang to be "reformed" through labor in 1963 for writing a controversial piece. During this period of hardship he accrued much of the experience that would later become the material for his short stories and novels, and he later became China's Minister of Culture
rRrRW TIL Japanese Koi are some of the most expensive fish in the world with some of the rarest selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The fish are raised in large groups in the Japanese hills where breeders can have over ten thousand fish from the 120 recognized varieties.
wLYwY TIL that a study of Toxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to be infecting around 1,000 people every day in Britain, has found that it makes chimpanzees more attracted to the smell of leopards, their main predators in the wild.
epvm5 TIL Perry Martin & his cat Thomas Jr. (T2 for short) became separated after Hurricane Jeanne struck in 2004. Martin assumed T2 had been killed on a nearby highway, however in 2018 they were reunited after T2 was brought to a veterinarian, who found T2's microchip which led to Martin being contacted.