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TIL: There are still 12 Blockbuster video stores, and 7 of them are in Alaska

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j66Mp TIL that "penile implants" exist and to get an erection with one you squeeze your nutsack. They're used for erectile dysfunction and FtM transitions
VBAP4 TIL Dan Savage, the American author who founded the non-profit organization "It Gets Better Project" in 2010, is also known for coining, in 2001, the term 'pegging" to describe a woman anally penetrating a man with a strap-on dildo.
p8d5e TIL Indian Maharaja Jam Sahib adopted 640 Polish orphans during WWII. He brought the children to the royal palace in Bombay, had a dormitory built for them, and brought in Polish teachers and chefs so the children would feel at home and "recover their health and forget the ordeal they went through".
g0nD TIL the last person found guilty of witchcraft in England was Helen Duncan in 1944. She was famous for using papier mache dolls as ‘spirits’ and fake ectoplasm made of cheesecloth
G6KJ TIL A Chemistry Ph.D. student turned her thesis into a comic so that her friends and family could understand it better.