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TIL about sentences that people don't at first realize make no sense ("Escher sentences"): "More people have been to Russia than I have"

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Zp5Oo TIL Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez took the stage name Martin Sheen in part as tribute to Fulton Sheen, a Catholic Bishop he admired.
vaNB TIL that famous paintings that expressed the horrific emotion of war by painter and printmaker Francisco Goya were defaced by the modern artists the Chapman brothers who painted over the visible victims’ heads with those of clowns’ and puppies’ heads causing outrage in the art world.
KOMV6 TIL that the BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, who killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991, was finally caught after sending a 1.44MB diskette to the police - which they told him was untraceable - containing metadata from a deleted MS Word file.
VMJ64 TIL the author of The Witcher sold the rights to his works to CD Projekt Red for a lump sum of $9,350, as he didn’t think the franchise would be successful. After the video game series became a success, he sued for $16.1 million.
yVbap TIL that in the original Super Mario Bros., you can continue where you left off in the last game by holding A down when you press Start