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TIL the Japanese word for male masturbation is “Senzuri” (“a hundred rubs”), while female masturbation is “Shiko shiko manzuri” (“ten thousand rubs”).

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8a8nK TIL that a plane carrying 6,000 pounds of pot crashed in Yosemite National Park. Climbers in Yosemite Valley heard news of the crash and sparked a miniature gold rush with up to 20 people searching the frozen crash site. Much of the weed was salvaged, smoked, or sold before park rangers caught on.
PY6EO TIL Rachele Mussolini had five children with the Italian dicatator, some of them living to old age in the 1990s. After the war, Rachele Mussolini ran a restaurant in her native village of Predappio, where she served pasta dishes
jNxn TIL Richard Nixon scrupulously maintained a massive list of political enemies, including Joe Namath, Bill Cosby, and the Otis Elevator Company
yQo08 TIL before the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write essays about their characters. Watson turned in a 16 page essay, Radcliffe gave a single page, and Grint forgot to turn his in.
pYaEb TIL the US Navy had one deep-water, nuclear-powered submarine, the NR-1, but it was decommissioned 2008