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TIL :art was an olympics competition

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l7NkK TIL that Ron Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for most appearances in adult films at +2k films where he 'performed.' His father was a physicist professor at New York's Queens College, while his mother was an US Office of Strategic Services officer and book editor.
p8VK8 TIL: Godzilla was originally conceived to be a cross between a gorilla and whale. The name is a hybrid of the two Japanese words for those two animals
W55L TIL that during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, President George Washington became the only sitting president to ever lead troops in the field
0wJLN TIL a Puerto Rican man was arrested for watching porno feat Lupe Fuentes, who a pediatrician identified as being underage because of her appearance. The porn star flew there from Spain to show her passport and prove she was 19. The man was in jail for 2 months before that happened.
p8REO TIL of a 12-year-old boy named Santos Rodriguez who on July 24, 1973 was killed in Dallas by a police officer, Darrell Cain, while being interrogated with his brother about "theft of change from a soda machine". Cain was conducting Russian roulette on the brothers to force a confession from them.