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TIL the Netherlands government will subsidize sex from prostitutes for disabled citizens.

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LkDbQ TIL prop masters make and test fake drugs before they’re used in movies like The Wolf of Wall Street. Cornstarch or Vitamin B powder for cocaine, oregano or hobby store moss for marijuana, freeze-dried regular mushrooms for magic mushrooms.
QNEk TIL a river in Cleveland was so polluted it caught on fire……. 13 times…
rRgVe TIL that Kirsty MacColl died while pushing one of her children out of the way of a speedboat owned by a billionaire. A deckhand claimed he, and not the billionaire was responsible for piloting the boat. He paid a fine of $90 to avoid prison.
0d95A TIL the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates there are around 150,000 licenses for radioactive sources and around 1 source per day is either lost or stolen.
Yb7Z TIL: Going to the bathroom is one of the most dangerous things a sloth can do. Half of all sloth deaths occur while they are climbing to and from the forest floor, which is where they poop.