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TIL That porn star Sunny Lane’s career is managed by her parents with whom she lives with in an apartment.

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9Y1MX TIL when a woman in Tokyo jumped into a river in an apparent suicide attempt, a group of Sumo wrestlers from the Sakaigawa-beya heya helped to pull the woman from the water; she had no life-threatening injuries. ("heya" literally means "room" but is normally translated in English as "stable").
BrvQx TIL that the reason why most birds sleep on one leg is that they have no plumage there. They therefore lift a leg up to keep it warm and thus limit heat exchange while maintaining the possibility of flying away quickly in case of danger.
4kEjX TIL the first message on the internet was “lo” (as in, “lo and behold”) sent on October 29, 1969
rNnX4 TIL: Canyons are the OG 'desire paths' for water
mxDRx TIL Steven Seagal claimed to be immune to chokeholds. To prove it, he had a stuntman put him in a hold. Seagal promptly lost consciousness and shit himself.