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TIL the world record for most parachute jumps in a 24-hour period is 640 set by Jay Stokes in 2006.

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5B48 TIL that there’s a festival in Japan called Kanamara Matsuri where a huge statue of penis is carried through the streets of Kawasaki. This parade is for promoting awareness about STD’s and celebrating fertility, long marriages and healthy births.
v1e54 TIL that in 1972, artist Dieter Meier installed a commemorative plaque at the railway station in Kassel, Germany, which read: "On 23 March 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later.
pYRnG TIL In 2001, an Australian hacker using a laptop and a radio transmitter took control of a local sewage system in Queensland and sent municipal sewage into parks, rivers and public lands. He did this out of revenge against the department that had opposed his hiring request.
jOKN TIL while in prison, mucisian MF Grimm paid $100,000 for 1 day bail to record an entire album. While in prison he studied law and reduced his life sentence to 3 years.
oB5yW TIL prosecuter Vincent Bugliosi admitted he used a DA investigator to stalk his former milk man, believing him to have slept with Bugliosi's wife. Instead of being fired, Bugliosi was given the Tate-LaBianca murder case.