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TIL the test version of Bob’s Burgers’ pilot featured a son named Daniel. When the character was changed to the awkward daughter Tina in the final version, the character’s original lines were kept–and so was the voice actor.

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R5a1a TIL co-founder of the band ABBA, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, was born from the union between a Norwegian mother and Nazi German father for a program where the Nazis tried to increase the Aryan population. Children such as her were open to receive nicknames such as “SS bastard”, “rat,” or “Nazi child.”
9wwyr TIL that 3% of patients chemically paralyzed and put on a ventilator become aware. Due to the paralytic leaving them unable to communicate, they are forced to lie motionless for the duration of the time on the vent. Patients would often become traumatized as a result.
xoV5 TIL that famous mathematician Kurt Gödel starved himself to death. He was obsessed with the idea of being poisoned, and would only eat food prepared by his wife. When his wife was hospitalized for six months, he refused to eat, eventually dying of malnutrition.
ab6o TIL that Stalin’s first son shot himself because of Stalin’s harshness toward him, but survived. After this, Stalin said, “He can’t even shoot straight.”
KNWJ TIL of Michael Cicconetti, a judge in Ohio who uses what he calls “creative justice”. He sentences guilty defendants with unusual punishments, such as forcing a woman who abandoned her kittens to spent a winter night outdoors.