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TIL The London Olympic Village is providing a record 150,000 condoms to this year’s 10,490 athletes.

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woZKP TIL in 1969 Led Zeppelin, after the Seattle Pop Festival alongside Vanilla Fudge, stayed in the Edgewater Inn where you can rent fishing poles, and fish out your room window. Allegedly, the band pleasured a willing groupie with a shark, and Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge recorded it on an 8mm camera.
jNL8E TIL if the film Something's Got to Give was released, Marilyn Monroe would've had the first topless scene in mainstream cinema.
wod6P TIL that Americans didn't brush their teeth regularly until after WWII. American GIs were required to brush their teeth, and brought the practice home with them.
worXW TIL About The Pig War, a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig.
4Dab TIL in 2010 AshleyMadison.com offered the city of Phoenix $10 million to rename Sky Harbor Intl. Airport to “The Ashley Madison Intl. Airport” for a period of 5 years. The offer was quickly declined.