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TIL the Simpsons characters Moe Szyslak and Mr Burns were originally voiced by Christopher Collins

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ROn7 TIL Lego has no military related sets because the inventor’s policy was to not want to make war seem like child’s play
6E7BW TIL in 2012 a 22-year-old man on a business trip sent a wrong-number text to a woman 30 years older; she replied that she'd like to hang out anyway. They went to a concert together, started dating, got married, and in 2019 she needed a kidney transplant and he donated his kidney to her.
6y7m TIL that in 2005, despite producing only 1/50th the number of cars as Volkswagen, Porsche attempted to buy VW on the open market. It rapidly amassed 74% of the outstanding shares of its larger German counterpart before running out of money and ultimately being purchased itself by none other than VW.
bxg7 TIL Matt Stone and Trey Parker Paid $300,000 Themselves So Paramount Pictures Wouldn’t Force Them To Have Kidd Rock Make a Song for The South Park Movie For MTV in 1999.
D1xkr TIL Shakespeare coined or popularized many of the phrases we use today. Some of these include: “Good riddance. In my heart of hearts. Laughing stock. Wild-goose chase. Devil incarnate. Brave new world. As luck would have it. All our yesterdays. Break the ice. Full circle.”