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TIL that Pérez Prado's cover of the Neapolitan song 'Guaglione' became #2 hit in the UK in 1994, decades after its release, when Guinness used it in an advert.

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OoxDa TIL that in Bhutan, boys are encouraged to go “Night Hunting”, a practise where they attempt to sneak into the homes of girls to engage in sexual relations with them. If they are caught by the family however, they have to marry the girl.
x68Zg TIL that the letter “E” was used for grading up until the 1930s because US schools feared students would misinterpret “E” for meaning excellent.
yQ5Bl TIL: During the Russian famine of the 1920s, Government officials advised starving residents to dig up the dried bones of animals, grind them into flour and bake a “bread substitute [that has] a nutritive value of 25 percent more than rye bread, in spite of its unpleasant smell and taste”.
XEJ4P TIL that all the urinals and toilets aboard the Iowa class battleships used saltwater to conserve valuable fresh water, except for one. The brig toilet used fresh water so that prisoners couldn't make themselves sick by drinking it.
1aPKO TIL the original rabbit vibrator was created in 1984. The company responsible for it made all it's products in Japan where they used cute animal designs to get around obscenity laws there. The rabbit design allows this vibrator to stimulate both the clitoris and the vagina.