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TIL Japan has ‘porn disposal’ boxes

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rQde TIL: Lawrence Baker had his death sentence via electric chair reduced to life in prison, only to electrocute himself by sitting on a toilet and biting a pair of headphones that were plugged into a t.v.
WoVX TIL that explorer Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji, but managed to miss the entire continent of Australia.
yQ5Ve TIL Clement Wragge, an Australian forecaster, was the first to give actual names to tropical storms and hurricanes . When the Australian government refused to acknowledge his system, he started naming the hurricanes after the the politicians he disliked or those that wouldn’t support him.
lQw1 TIL that Michael Jordan once refused to endorse a Democrat against a Republican because “Republicans buy sneakers too.”
xVZe0 TIL that Russian porn star Lola Taylor has offered to have sex with the scientist who finds a cure for the current virus