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TIL After regretting supporting the internment camps, Dr. Seuss dedicated Horton Hears a Who to a Japanese friend as an apology.

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4XAZJ TIL of Twitch Plays Pokemon. A social experiment where internet users collaborated to beat Pokemon Red in just over 16 days. Generally regarded as a classic internet moment, the event holds the world record for "the most participants on a single-player online videogame" with 1,165,140.
k8Qd TIL Fa Ping, the name Mulan chooses while posing as a man, is a pun on the chinese expression for “Eye Candy”
8KbL TIL the sound effects for the alien language in District 9 were made by rubbing a pumpkin
GYlvJ TIL: Facebook made about $90 per user in the US and Canada last year
M7M0B TIL that in 1930, the 22 million pound Indiana Bell building was shifted 52 feet (16 m) south, rotated 90 degrees, and then shifted again 100 feet (30 m) west. The services they provided for telephone, water, sewage, gas, and electricity were all unaffected. The 600 employees inside felt nothing.