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TIL: There is a Masturbate-a-thon in which participants masturbate to raise money and awareness of the act, in the past six years it has raised $25,000.

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R7L41 TIL George Miller, an M.D. at the time, was inspired to make Mad Max (1979) when he witnessed fights break out during a gas shortage in Australia. He assumed in the future nations would not implement infrastructure for renewable energy until it was too late and this could lead to a dystopia.
1avX TIL, according to the director, that the unopened package in Cast Away contained a working solar-powered and waterproof satellite phone.
E15DX TIL there was a massive lacrosse game between two tribes, Ojibwe vs Sauk, that was actually a ruse employed in order to capture a British fort in 1763
E1JAd TIL former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) met both John Quincy Adams and a young JFK. He'd also relate stories of his grandmother watching the Redcoats invade colonial America.
9YmLp TIL that in 1988, the CIA paid $2 MM to Chad in order to extract an advanced Soviet attack helicopter (Mi-25) from an abandoned Libyan air base using two MH-47 Chinook transport helicopters, flying a total of 500 miles under the cover of night