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TIL for charity people do 'Masturbate-A-Thon's?

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M71AV TIL that the first clear aerial image of a city was taken on October 13, 1860 by James Wallace Black. It was shot from a hot-air balloon at 1,200 feet and was called 'Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It'.
49aN TIL that the Apple logo contains an apple with a single bite, because a small version of the logo would be indistinguishable from a cherry.
5dY8 TIL: J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, compared himself to Vishnu, the destroyer of worlds. (This is an erie video clip)
wRv6 TIL of Julie D’Aubigny who was a 17th century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who fought and won at least ten life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest opera stage in the world and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.
8aLBG TIL that initially the adults of Sesame Street didn’t believe Mr. Snuffleupagus was real, but this was changed to avoid having kids feel that adults wouldn’t believe them when they had something important to say.