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TIL that despite strong intolerance of gays, Pakistan leads in world for gay porn searches

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l7ePG TIL that snowballs helped extinguish a train fire. After a collision in January 1882, rescuers ran out of water. They formed giant snowballs and rolled them onto the burning cars to extinguish the flames. Among the dead was Webster Wagner, crushed between two sleepings cars his company had built.
W7eMo TIL that the Chinese Community Party under Mao banned Bodybuilding in 1953, calling it a "unproductive and narcissistic pursuit of beauty", the ban was lifted 30 years later
04Op TIL that Wolverine was supposed to have a cameo in Spider-Man (2002). Hugh Jackman even flew to New York, but the scene had to be scrapped because his costume was nowhere to be found.
PY8oV TIL that researchers were puzzled after a $2,700 Cellular Bill was Racked up on SIM Card Attached to a Stork
p8kmG TIL there's a hobby called magnet fishing where people use rare earth magnets attached to ropes and throw them into rivers and other bodies of water to pull up metal objects and they often find weapons