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TIL Jimi Hendrix was discharged from the army due to sleeping on duty and being caught masturbating.

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9wQVX TIL that there is a British Weights & Measures Association established to halt metrication and return to full use of Imperial Units, and it publishes a biannual newsletter called "The Yardstick"
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9YxBr TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger's parents used to beat him because they thought he was gay since his bedroom walls were covered with posters of men instead of women.
E1JD0 TIL about the Eisriesenwelt, a natural limestone and ice cave in Austria. It is the largest ice cave in the world, extending more than 42km and the frozen lake inside the cave, during the Second World War, was used by skating athletes to train for the Olympics.
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