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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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mxa8v TIL The Japanese dub of SpongeBob has Plankton voiced by a woman who gives the character a typical chibi voice
b9kmZ TIL that a con man tricked Al Capone out of $5,000. He got Capone to give him $50,000 to invest in a scam. After 2 months, he returned it. He told Capone that the scam had fallen through, and he had no money left to support himself. Capone, stung by his honesty, gave him $5,000 to “tide him over”.
ZPB TIL That those thoughts of doing dangerous/risky/harmful things or mainly unwanted images of yourself doing those things are called intrusive thoughts, and are pretty normal.
4LD6 TIL Franklin W. Dixon, author of The Hardy Boys, DOESN’T EXIST. It’s just a nom de plume given to various ghostwriters.
lwo1 TIL that portions of Anne Frank’s diary were censored because she described her clitoris