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TIL The Slender Man is protected by copyright by Eric Knudsen, the man who originally came up with the concept on SomethingAwful

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J0V1 TIL that the compliance-gaining technique of adding “but you are free to refuse” after a verbal request has been found to double your chances of getting what you want.
Eo6P TIL that it wasn’t until he was 37 when Jack Nicholson found out that his supposed “sister”, June, was actually his mother
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