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TIL The song 'Glycerine' by the band Bush was written about Gavin Rossdale's relationship with his girlfriend at the time, a model named Jasmine Lewis. The title comes from the explosive applications of glycerine to stabilize nitro. Rossdale said the song was about how love was like a bomb.

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x61jD TIL a 2017 study found that people who watch porn daily were less likely to get a divorce than those who never watch porn
Y7QkW TIL that Piroska Jancsó-Ladányi (January 15, 1934 – December 12, 1954) was a Hungarian serial killer who murdered five teenage girls in Törökszentmiklós between 1953 and 1954 to satisfy her sexual urges. She was hanged in 1954 and remains one of Hungary’s most infamous killers.
l7leN TIL the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th to 17th-century Europe, covering an area of almost 1,000,000 square kilometres, and having a multi-ethnic population of almost 12 million. Polish and Latin were the two co-official languages.
1abW4 TIL famed Grateful Dead sound engineer Better Cantor Jackson lost over 1000 original board tapes when her storage locker was liquidated in a sale. Some of the tapes inside crates were purchased by a teacher who tried to sell them for $1 million despite being offered $100,000 by the band.
BraAD TIL that it is impossible to get the true measure of the coastline of any nation on the planet due to something called the Coastline Paradox. For example the CIA measures the USA's coastline as 18,924 miles whereas NOAA measures it as 95,471 miles.