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TIL a Puerto Rican man was arrested for watching porno feat Lupe Fuentes, who a pediatrician identified as being underage because of her appearance. The porn star flew there from Spain to show her passport and prove she was 19. The man was in jail for 2 months before that happened.

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Qlrd TIL on Feb 20th, 1792 George Washington signed the Postal Service Act, making it illegal for postal officials to open anyone’s mail.
grM14 TIL that CeCe Peniston was the first foreign female entertainer to perform in post-apartheid South Africa.
Z8X94 TIL Quinten Tarrentino at 16, lied about his age to get a job as an usher at the adult movie Theatre in Torrance, California stating however “I hated porno movies...it was the most ironic situation: I finally got a job at a movie theatre and it’s a place where I don’t want to watch the movies.”
WkNK4 TIL Stegosaurus did not exist in the same timeline as Tyrannosaurus Rex. In fact, T-Rex's existence is much closer to human's existence in the timeline than to Stegosaurus's existence.
kJrZd TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.