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TIL that Terry Pratchett once changed his German publisher because they inserted a soup commercial into his books, and when confronted about it refused to promise that they wouldn't do it again.

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Odb4 TIL that Banksy made the intro for an episode of The Simpsons (S22E03)
gr5lW TIL about Project 100,000, a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.
kOO55 TIL that in the 1920s, Joseph Stalin wanted to rebuild the Red Army by creating super-soldiers by "crossing humans with apes"
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