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TIL - That vibrators are illegal in Alabama.

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KYWN4 TIL that the Makkah Royal Clock Tower stands 601 meters and is the centerpiece of the Abraj Al Bait Complex of seven luxury hotels which overlook the Kaaba and Holy Mosque, the focus of pilgrims performing Umrah and Hajj. The clock hosts the Makkah Time, a time signal to unify the Islamic world.
b9wmE TIL that the Wall Street "Charging Bull" sculpture was for sale from 1993 to at least 2008. The artist was trying to recover the $360,000 it cost him to cast the piece. He only received one major offer: a Las Vegas hotel bid $300k but he declined and insisted that it remain in its current location.
jNKEM TIL that during the recording of the title track for the James Bond film "Thunderball" Tom Jones held the final high note for so long that he fainted in the recording booth.
Z8br4 TIL when Spanish missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Japan. The local Japanese people initially assumed that the he was buddhist monk from India and that Christianity was a new Buddhism sect.
dPO8 TIL in 1986 a Kansas sheriff rented a camera and VCR from his local video store, filming a 90 minute sex tape with his wife. Upon returning the equipment, he inadvertently left the tape inside the VCR. Soon enough, his whole town had watched and passed around copies of “The Sheriff Rides Again”