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TIL there is an island called Dildo off the coast of Canada.

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KObBw TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary for T2: Judgement day was $15 million and total words spoken by him in the entire film is 700. This attributes to $21,429 per word and the line ”Hasta la vista, baby” amounts to $85,716.
yVW5X TIL: That the Playboy Magazine was named after a defunct car company
4k8Y5 TIL Banana peels are edible.
nWnNG TIL that egg donors are often mislead about the dangers of the procedure because the industry is so lucrative. Reported long-term effects include "aggressive breast cancer, loss of fertility, and fatal colon cancer."
8aQXb TIL in 1974 the CIA mounted a top-secret research project, "Azorian", to recover a Soviet nuclear missile submarine that had sunk in 1968 using a grapple secretly lowered from underwater, ultimately recovering about a 3rd of the submarine and two nuclear missiles from a depth of over three miles.