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TIL Bob Gibbins claims he has the world’s largest collection of love dolls, 240 of them costing around $160,000. He and his wife spend a lot of time fixing them up to look as nice as possible. They also take them on walks and shopping trips around town. He denies having sex with them, however.

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b9NbE TIL There is a lake in Russia nicknamed the “Siberian Maldives” where Russians pose for photos due to its bright turquoise colour. The lake is not that colour naturally it is turquoise due to toxic waste runoff from a local power plant and is very hazardous
x60R7 TIL why Japan drives on the left hand side of the road which goes back all the way to the Edo period (1603-1867) when Samurai ruled the country. In 1872, England won the bid to help Japan build it's railway system (railways were all left side running) and left hand side driving became "official".
Y7Zrr TIL "Just Dance 2020" was the final game released physically for the Nintendo Wii in North America. "Shakedown: Hawaii" would have also had a physical release on the Wii in 2020, and would have taken Ubisoft's record, but Nintendo could no longer find their Wii disc printing components in storage
QJQ0k TIL Cone snail venom contains weaponized insulin. The insulin forms part of a poison mixture evocatively known as “nirvana cabal”. It allows the snail to disable entire schools of swimming fish by sending them into “hypoglycaemic shock”, a condition brought on by plummeting blood sugar levels.
OGy41 TIL: Kimberly Vanvaeck, otherwise known as Gigabyte, wrote the first C# virus along with several other viruses after a long standing dispute with Graham Cluley who worked for an internet security firm. The dispute was due to Cluley making several comments about the gender of virus writers.