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TIL Pseudo-Chinese is a form of Japanese Internet slang which involves taking sentences which are grammatically Japanese and stripping away the hiragana and katakana, leaving only kanji. The phenomenon has received attention in China, where Chinese speakers can guess the meaning of the sentence.

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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.
R7gNQ TIL that when helium is cooled to near absolute zero it becomes a liquid that flows against gravity.
WkEg9 TIL Ben Franklin, while feuding with Titan Leeds, used astrology to predict his death and published this in the Poor Richards Almanac, and when Leeds didn't die on that date, referred to him as "the ghost of Titan Leeds" thereafter and encouraged him to pass on.
8n1P TIL - Rick James (“Superfreak”) was in a band with Neil Young, Bruce Palmer (Buffalo Springfield) and Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf) before having to serve a year in prison because he was actually AWOL from the navy
xVKxD TIL Pablo Picasso would carry around a gun loaded with blank bullets and he would shoot at fans who asked about his theory of aesthetics or the meaning of his works of art