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TIL Ryan Gosling turned down a spot in The Backstreet Boys b/c he thought they were a rip off of the NKOTB.

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6EErY TIL that a man Caligula recalled from exile told the emperor that he had been praying for the death of the previous emperor, Tiberius. After considering this, Caligula concluded that all the people he had exiled must therefore be praying for his own death, so he had them executed en masse.
ag5Z TIL there was a German priest who invented his own language after God told him to in a dream. Currently, there are 20 fluent in it.
y08M TIL Japan defines prostitution as “intercourse with an unspecified person in exchange for payment”; brothel owners circumvent this law by not offering penertrative sex or claiming both parties became acquaintances before the act.
OoAr6 TIL the Swiss Army Knives are red so they can more easily be found when dropped in snow
8GAX TIL that people have been calling each other ‘douche bags’ since the 60’s