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TIL that Jenna Jameson had her own ‘American Idol’ style TV show where porn actresses would perform sexual acts for judges.

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4LKJ TIL that in 1983 a skull fragment was found in a bog in England and was reported to the authorities. They then pulled in a man suspected of murdering his wife who confessed to the act. The fragment was found to have belonged to a woman that died in 250 CE and the man was still tried and convicted.
YpZvB TIL That one of the most radioactive things on earth is a smokers lungs. Smoking a pack-and-a-half every day exposes a smoker to a dose of Polonium radiation equivalent to 300 chest X-rays a year.
Lkodv TIL raindrops are not actually shaped like teardrops. Small raindrops are spherical due to water surface tension while larger raindrops, having more drag, will flatten out forming a hamburger bun, and even bigger raindrops will become a parashute eventually breaking up into smaller dropslets
oBjE TIL that a man named Arthur Lintgen can correctly identify a piece of classical music by simply analyzing the grooves on a vinyl record.
Yp0PA TIL The last letter to be added to our alphabet was “J.”