TIL the original 1881 "Pinocchio" was a dark story that included the puppet's execution by hanging for his bad behavior (which included murdering Jiminy Cricket) slate.com Submitted by foodtower t3_zxnp8g on December 28, 2022 at 10:50 PM in todayilearned 161 comments 1,801
fettermans_goiter t1_j21pzpr wrote on December 29, 2022 at 12:46 AM Can you imagine how dark a children’s story had to be in 1881, that the publisher was like “you gotta rewrite some of the fucked up parts” Permalink 23
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