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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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Y7OyG TIL that the "dumb" in dumbbells originally meant "mute". A "dumb" bell was a contraption used to train church bell ringers in the fine art of bell ringing without annoying the entire neighborhood. Later, because of the similarities in shape, the name was applied to certain exercise equipment.
Wk8ZA TIL about the Most Unwanted Song, a musical piece that was created using a survey to identify what people hated most in music. The final result included out of tune accordions and bagpipes, a rapping cowboy opera singer, and a children's choir that urged listeners to shop at Walmart.
vOm4 TIL Jack Bauer killed 268 people throughout the 24 series
W7YpX TIL Hawaii is not part of North America (or any continent) but is in the geographic region Oceania
b6GOZ TIL the first all black broadway product, Shuffle Along, original run was so poor that at some points they could only get second hand costumes but by end of it's broadway run it had earned $9million dollars.