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TIL Prostitution is legal in Canada

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9YKX6 TIL 165 victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima sought refuge in Nagasaki where they were bombed again 3 days later.
Y7RWr TIL: Kinks are both learned AND hereditary according to several PHD researchers. As inheriting some bodily features, such as sensitive nipples will draw offspring towards BDSM elements for example. The conclusion is that inherited traits and prime conditions can lead to one developing similar kinks.
M7wy0 TIL that in 19th-century Britain, many workers relied on the services of “knocker-uppers”—people whose job was to tap on clients’ windows (or use long sticks and even pebbles) to wake them up for work.
69oMm TIL of the Pierce Arrow armoured anti aircraft lorry deployed by the Royal Marine Artillery in the First World War. Used from 1915 to 1917, it shot down over twenty enemy aircraft, having take out the first of these within two days of deployment.
ZZnp TIL William Shatner made Richard Simmons storm off the stage of the Today Show when he asked “Is that what you think straight guys are?”