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TIL Monkeys will pay to watch monkey porn.

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xnNb TIL Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford got drunk with his cronies, wrecked a small town in Ireland, painted it red (literally), beat up a few cops and painted them red too. Thus the term painting the town red was created.
gblD TIL that airline workers are classified as radiation workers (like people in nuclear power plants), because of how much exposure they get due to cosmic radiation making it through the thinner atmosphere while flying.
Z8WRD TIL that only 39 people in the world has climbed Everest and K2 without botteled oxygen.
60Wl TIL that, at over 400 years old, Zildjian - the cymbal manufacturer - is one of the oldest companies in existence.
BdXb TIL after McDonald’s reduced the price of fries in Japan, teens would have “Potato Parties” where they would buy upwards of 60 orders of fries