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TIL Casper the Friendly Ghost died as a teen because of pneumonia from sledding all day.

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PYYJG TIL that in 2007 two Young Earth Creationists created "Crocoduck", a composite sketch of a half-crocodile half-duck, in order to disprove the theory of evolution.
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VB7mB TIL George Carlin’s 1972 “Seven Dirty Words” routine (“shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits”) led to a 1978 Supreme Court case affirming FCC power to regulate indecent broadcasts. Carlin defended “tits” as too harmless for the list, joking it sounded like a snack food.
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PdXe TIL it took over two centuries for the 27th ammendment, the one banning congress from giving themselves mid term pay raises, to become law.