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TIL That www.Whitehouse.com was a porn website until 2004.

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yQYLM TIL that there is a type of tumor that can grow eyes, hair, teeth, and limbs.
nW8pB TIL Chinese company Tencent shut down Korean video game PUBG and replaced it with “Game for Peace” in which defeated players wave goodbye and disappear instead of lying down and dying
LQdpV TIL in 1971, the Texas legislature unanimously passed a resolution honoring Albert DeSalvo, self-confessed “Boston Strangler”, for work in "population control"—after the vote, Rep. Tom Moore Jr. admitted it was an April Fool's joke—to prove they pass legislation with no research.
yVQgJ TIL a Pornocracy is a government ruled by prostitutes or by corrupt officials (Who sell themselves for power). Its a term made most famous by the Darke Age of the Papacy (904-964AD).
BrXrk TIL that Pablo Picasso demanded his mistresses to be submissive and shorter than him. He thought women were "either goddesses or doormats". Dora Maar, one of his lovers, called him "an extraordinary artist but morally worthless".