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TIL Australia forbids tiny breasts in porn due to the fact that it encourages pedophilia.

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5VW78 TIL Woody Harrelson's father was a contract killer and convicted of assassinating federal judge.
Ypag7 TIL that the popular sleeping aid known as Ambien - zolpidem tartrate - was astonishingly discovered to bring back some minimally conscious patients back from a vegetative state.
Re91 TIL that Robert Landsburg, while filming Mount St. Helens volcano eruption in 1980 realized he could not survive it, so he rewound the film back into its case, put his camera in his backpack, and then lay himself on top of the backpack to protect the film for future researchers.
Oae TIL: When the US Attorney-General asked for the power to prevent people on the terrorist watch list from buying guns, the US Congress answered with a firm “no”.
oVGo TIL of the ‘Japanese Smoking Paradox’ where Japanese smokers smoke more than US/European males but have much lower lung cancer rates and nobody is entirely sure why.