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TIL that in the original story Pinocchio squished the cricket to shut it up. It continued nagging him as a ghost.

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7eAM TIL Buddy Hollys wife upon hearing on the news of her husbands death had a miscarriage the next day leading authorities to adopt a policy in the coming months not to release victim names till their families have been informed
BrPMW TIL during the Edo period in Japan, some firefighters set fires intentionally so they could show off their firefighting skills in public or create more business for themselves since some firefighters had construction businesses. Some firefighters were executed for this.
R5aaQ TIL: Velcro is actually a brand name, and they launched campaigns to get people to stop saying "Velcro". The correct term is actually "hook and loop".
OoYOY TIL about white torture. A person is isolated in a all white room and given only white food to strip them of their identity.
kdym TIL in 1623, the German polymath Wilhelm Schickard designed what was probably the first mechanical digital computer. Schickard died of bubonic plague soon, but his machine was replicated later and is likely to have worked in spite of some imperfections.