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TIL the NORTH AMERICAN lottery system is a $70 billion-a-year business, bigger than movie tickets, music, and porn combined

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VBB6p TIL that Janet Jackson has a tattoo of Mickey Mouse...receiving oral sex from Minnie Mouse (See tattoo #4).
R7Jp8 TIL they don’t use street addresses in Nicaragua and instead navigate by reference points. For example, “two blocks to the lake, then go three blocks south and one down.” This method is even used to address mail and deliver pizzas.
OGMK1 TIL a dozen intersex athletes competed in the Olympics, usually discovered after the onset of sex verification testing
e0jb5 TIL After the Battle of Aspern-Essling (1809), the surgeon of the Napoleonic Army Larrey, lacking salt, seasoned a horse meat bouillon for the wounded under his care with gunpowder. It was also used for sterilization in ships when there was no alcohol.
yQOol TIL of the "Poe Toaster". A shadowy figure dressed in black who for over 7 decades toasted Edgar Alan Poe on his birthday at his grave with cognac and three roses