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TIL Brooke Shields played a 12 year old prostitute and filmed nude scenes in the 1978 film, Pretty Baby

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J1vOQ TIL that Gwenyth Paltrow once endorsed the practice of steam cleaning your vagina where “you sit on what is essentially a mini throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus”. There has been no evidence that steam cleaning has any benefits.
9YrNX TIL only three people in the nation were qualified to hand-pack the parachutes for Apollo 15. Their expertise was so vital, they were not allowed to ride in the same car together for fear that a single auto accident could cripple the space program.
x6L07 TIL about “jouhatsu”, the people who pay companies specialized in making people disappear
A6ka TIL Darth Vader’s head is carved in limestone on the northwest tower of the Washington National Cathedral in DC.
KO4a9 TIL about Estevanico, or Mustafa Azemmouri, an enslaved Muslim of Moroccan origin who became the first African to explore North America when, following a shipwreck off Galveston Island, he walked from Texas to Sinaloa in the 1530s