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TIL that there is a Japanese fabric pattern called "Sayagata", a continuous pattern of diagonally interlaced swastikas.

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P1DJZ TIL that back in the 1920s, the end of Coney Island's Steeplechase ride featured a "Blowhole Theater" where air jets would lift women's skirts up for an audience to see, meanwhile the men accompanying them would get hit with an electric cattle prod from behind by a clown while they were distracted.
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