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TIL Bernard Moitessier was about to set a record for the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe when he decided instead to continue on to Tahiti "because he was happy at sea."

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67GW TIL barnacles have the largest penis to body ratio in the animal kingdom.
JYDXQ TIL Michel Vaujour a French convict jailed in 1986 for attempted murder and armed robbery "forced his way onto the prison's roof by wielding nectarines that were painted to look like grenades." His wife then picked him up in a helicopter and whisked him away.
jNJyQ TIL The "Miss Bumbum contest is a Brazilian annual pageant show which aims to find the best buttocks in the country."
rN1w TIL. That Greek statues were carved with a small penis because having a bigger package was considered grotesque and disgusting
xVgbo TIL despite selling over 35 million albums, the Grateful Dead have only had one song on the Billboard top 40: 1987’s “Touch of Grey”