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TIL about an expensive brothel in Paris called One-Two-Two with a pirate themed room that was fitted with a bed which mechanically swing like a boat with jets of water drenching the occupants mimicking sex in a leaky boat.

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X0g7R TIL About Miriam Rodríguez, the 57 year old Mexican mother who hunted down her daughters kidnappers.
OGx4Y TIL There's a Federal Railroad Administration which allows you to report when and where trains have blocked a crossing for unreasonable amounts of time.
OolgL TIL Owners of sports teams are allowed to write their players' contracts off as depreciating assets in order to obtain huge tax benefits.
58Br TIL that in 2009 a man spray-painted his face to disguise himself, robbed a store - and then died from the fumes. Earning him the Darwin Award
nWJXd TIL when a newly discovered sponge-like fungi was named after SpongeBob SquarePants in 2011, a mycological research journal initially rejected the name for being “too frivolous”. When challenged, the scientists stood behind their discovery, saying “we’ll name it whatever we like”.