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TIL there is a traffic light in Germany that has been red for 28 years

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epjaL TIL a 1978 study had students approach strangers & ask to have sex. 75% of men said yes; zero women did. But a 2015 study made sure its participants believed they could accept offers of sex without fear of what might happen to them; it found when society isn’t judging, women's sex drive rivals men's
jNEVE TIL Scooby Doo did a parody of The Blair Witch Project that was aired only once on Cartoon Network
8e7vZ TIL the ahead of the U.S. invasion of Grenada 40 years ago, the Pentagon "knew so little about the country, it had to plan the invasion using maps normally sold to tourists."
p8V1N TIL that Harrison Ford was very shy, didn't like talking about himself and was not at all interested in the movie star lifestyle. He suffered from anxiety and had had a lifelong fear of public speaking. Even in films, when required to make a speech in character, he got the same nervous condition.
9n7p TIL I learned of Matthias Sindelar, the “Mozart of football”. Widely considered one of the best players of the 1930s, he defiantly scored and celebrated a goal against Nazi Germany in a game meant to celebrate the Anschluss. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1939.