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TIL Prisencolinensinainciusol was an Italian No. 1 pop hit written in fake American English. This is what English sounds like to foreigners. [4:02]

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Z8JDp TIL The Bikini Atoll’s flag is similar to the USA flag, but with black stars representing islands destroyed by nuclear testing, to serve as a reminder of the debt the US still owes them for nuclear fallout and radiation poisoning.
4ko1X TIL that gasoline was commonly used for dry cleaning clothes in early 1900s American homes. It was also extremely dangerous, forcing the California State Fire Marshal to create a campy PSA video about it in 1941.
0wRQA TIL the officers who assassinated japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi in 1932 also planned to kill his then guest Charlie Chaplin, in the hopes that this would provoke a war with the United States.
1kLP TIL Mary-Kate Olsen refused to speak to authorities about the death of Heath Ledger without the promise of legal immunity
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