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TIL: Professional porn censors in China get paid to watch over 150 pornographic DVDs each week, start to finish.

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R5KLQ TIL that the Red River Floodway, a channel built in the 60's to protect Winnipeg, Canada from flood damage by diverting excess river flow around the city, was the second largest earth-moving project at the time, even more than the Suez Canal. It was surpassed only by the Panama Canal.
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