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TIL that Best Buy removed the fighting video game “Primal Rage” from its shelves after an Arizona woman complained that her 11-year-old son had faithfully portrayed one of the game’s gorilla-like character’s “golden shower/urination” fatality move.

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8XNP TIL that Teddy Roosevelt would regularly go skinny dipping in the Potomac. Once while out on a walk with Gifford Pinchot and the French Ambassador, the three proceeded to jump in, however the French Ambassador kept on his gloves. When asked why, he responded, “We might meet ladies.“
K4wE TIL that polar bears are undetectable by infrared cameras
05eR TIL - Ford’s invention of the moving assembly line allowed cars to be created so quickly that “Japan Black” was the only paint that could dry fast enough to keep up, thus his famous quote, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black”.
woGnJ TIL Charles Darwin Ate Every Animal He Ever Discovered
ADVbd TIL developers in China built a sex theme park ‘Love Land’ with naked human sculptures, giant replica genitals, sex technique workshops and a photo gallery on the history of sex. It was deemed a negative influence on Chinese society and the government demolished it before it could open