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TIL: Entrepreneur Li Bo built the first sex doll brothel in China and had thousands of guests. It cost $15-57/ hour and features rooms like prison cells, hospitals, and classrooms. It made national headlines, but was shut down 3 years later by law enforcement. Criticisms involved sanitary concerns

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b6RrZ TIL a particular wealthy Roman named Spurius Maelius was executed and his house razed for giving discounted food to the poor
ADJro It chows down at a record-setting pace, only taking 8 milliseconds to identify its prey as a tasty morsel, and only 200 milliseconds total to eat it. That’s the fastest foraging behavior of any mammal on the planet.
Omx4 TIL Actress Bette Davis lived through four marriages, four strokes, breast cancer, and paralysis and died at the age of 81. Her epitaph reads “She did it the hard way.”
voWR TIL Soviet scientists defended the world’s largest seed bank during the 28 month Siege of Leningrad when it couldn’t be evacuated. 9 scientists starved, surrounded by tons of crops and fruit, refusing to destroy ‘the future of Russia’.
oMGA TIL that there are plans to turn abandoned parts of Detroit into a zombie apocalypse theme park