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TIL Japan has ‘porn disposal’ boxes

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R55bw TIL Jim Carrey went through Navy Seal torture training in order to play the grinch.
eBB5 TIL that only 24% of Arab Americans are Muslim.
0dZ7M TIL In 1944, Helen Martini was hired as the Bronx Zoo's first female keeper after successfully raising 3 tiger cubs. She was famous for treating animals in her Bronx apartment-sometimes despite the complaints of neighbors-including gorillas, marmosets, baby deer, antelope, squirrels, and skunks.
PZ4e TIL Peter O'Toole found his camel saddle uncomfortable while filming Lawrence of Arabia, so he put a piece of foam rubber under it. The film’s Bedouin extras saw this and copied it, and today the practice has spread to become Bedouin tradition. They call O’Toole “Father of the Sponge”.
69yLl TIL Folk/blues singer Lead Belly recorded the first known usage of the term "stay woke". He used the term in the song Scottsboro Boys to warn black audiences about lynch mobs in Alabama.