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TIL There's a museum in Iceland that houses the world's largest display of dicks

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16x5r TIL that the world’s first entirely 3D-printed neighborhood is currently being built in Mexico, providing affordable housing solutions for families living on $3 a day.
8amAK TIL Dion DiMucci recorded his song "Runaround Sue" with black musicians. In the music video, the black musicians were replaced by white actors playing musicians so that it can be played in the South at that time.
mxPlo TIL During the influenze pandemic of 1918-1920, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness in Germany, the UK, France, and the US. Papers were free to report the effects in Spain, giving a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit, giving rise to the name "Spanish flu".
0ME1 TIL the Million Program is an ambitious public housing initiative implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974. Aiming to give everyone a home at a reasonable price, it was the most ambitious building program in the world – adding one million new homes in a nation with a population of eight million.
wo89P TIL Barbara Eden spoke real Farsi when meeting Larry Hagman’s character in the first episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and her dialect was coached by a UCLA professor