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TIL that French used to have and provide mobile military brothels to their soldiers between WW1 and as late as 2003.

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9V8M TIL Vince Lombardi was very anti-prejudice and once told his assisants, regarding gay player Ray McDonald, “If I hear one of you people make reference to his manhood, you’ll be out of here before your ass hits the ground.”
xae0 TIL that tripping on LSD has aided at least 2 Nobel prize winners in their scientific discoveries.
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wo8mP TIL The World Factbook, published by the CIA, lists Australia’s coastline at 25,760 km (16,007 miles) and Japan’s at 29,751 km (18,486 miles). The World Factbook is wrong according to other measures which put Australia's coastline at 66,530 km (41,340 miles)