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TIL A customer had to be dragged from a burning Hamburg, Germany sex shop by firefighters when he refused orders to evacuate. He had shut himself inside a private booth to watch a film (“Throbbin Hood”) and was heard complaining (while coughing from smoke inhalation) that he hadn’t “finished yet”

grbR9 TIL that the warm water cooling pools at the Miami Nuclear Plant became a prime habitat for the American crocodile to the point they played a major role in bringing the species back from the brink of extinction.
4bDg TIL there is an Annual Tarantula Exhibition, where participants are judged much like dogs in a dog show. Participants are judged on shiny coats, correct proportions, an active demeanor and proper stance. In 2014, the event was attended by more than 30,000 tarantulas and their keepers.
VpQB TIL The statute of limitations for Financial Crimes is 5 years, meaning most of the banksters responsible for 2008 will never be prosecuted.
Oo9QR Today I learned about the life of Tlatoani Nezahualcoyotl one of the greatest kings of the pre-Columbian era in America and about his incredible life in which he was a poet, engineer, legislator, philosopher, and a war that killed 14 rival kings with his own hands and father of 110 children.
X0kX6 TIL that some Greco-Romans 2000 years ago may have created bread in the shape of a phallus for self-stimulation purposes, which is commonly referred to as a 'bread dildo' in modern times.