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TIL that Mark Twain gave a lecture on Masturbation in which he poked fun at those who shunned the practice by making up quotes such as, “Homer, in the second book of the Iliad, says with fine enthusiasm, “Give me masturbation or give me death!”

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gXNW TIL that jurors can find a defendant “not guilty” regardless of evidence if they believe the law broken is unjust.
ZpJ8Y TIL the Australian constitution technically allows for the disenfranchisement of voters based on race
k651 TIL that after Michael Jackson’s death, Google was so inundated with “michael jackson” search requests, they believed they were a victim of a DDoS attack, and blocked further searches for 30 minutes
YpjYG TIL in 2003 voters in Georgia approved the adoption the Confederate flag as the Flag of Georgia with the only change being the addition of a yellow state seal
0ddKy TIL in 1982 the US government secretly supplied state of the art Sidewinder missiles to UK during Falklands War. Overall British Harriers shot down 23 planes without a combat loss during the conflict.