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TIL Radioactive Spark Plugs were sold in the 1940s under the theory the radiation made the engine run better.

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8aGE8 TIL Tom Hanks refused to get paid for his roles in Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, preferring to take percentages of the movies’ worldwide total gross instead. He got almost $60 million from Forrest Gump, and between $30 million and $40 million from Saving Private Ryan.
naDd TIL an underground system governs the turf that China’s beggars can work: able-bodied beggars who intrude on territory reserved for the disabled or elderly are beaten
ADNa7 TIL there's a park in South Korea dedicated to penises
KgLB TIL that in 1968 Disney made a film entitled “Family Planning” in which Donald Duck told Hispanic people to stop having so many children
5oNB TIL there was a custom in ancient Babylon compelling all women at least once in their lives to go to the temple of Aphrodite and have sex with a stranger.