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TIL a gargoyle that doesn’t conceal a drainpipe is called a hunky punk

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Zx9Y TIL JFK promised to abolish segregation with the stroke of a pen but after two years of an unfulfilled promise, African Americans in mass sent pens to the White House with letters reading “in case you needed that pen” which led him to sign an order to ban racial discrimination in wages
ANXdx TIL that in order to host the Super Bowl, host cities must provide the NFL exclusive access to three top quality, 18-hole area golf courses (at no cost) so it can host a tournament on Super Bowl weekend
4kPdX TIL that there is a cafe in Christchurch, NZ, that delivers food from the kitchen to customers in pneumatic tubes.
Lkw1r TIL that the inflatable sex doll may have been invented by Adolf Hitler, but the project failed because soldiers were too embarrassed to carry them.
XErEr TIL that the effects of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 were so widespread that sheep in Wales had to be put under control measures, which included measuring their radioactivity before sales. This control was finally lifted in 2012, 26 years after the disaster.