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TIL: Lyndon B. Johnson called his penis “Jumbo”, and would occassionally not zip up and ask a colleague if they had seen anything as big as his penis.

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nWaXr TIL - the deepest underwater rescue occurred in 1973. Roger Mallison and Roger Chapman were trapped in their submersible on the seabed at 480m for 76 hours.
x4G1 TIL: in 2010 a man had live explosives on his bag for three days unknowingly, when he got a phone call and a bomb squad showed up at his home. The explosives were placed and forgotten on his bag during an airport security exercise.
OoE7 TIL Mila Kunis had no idea black people existed until she was 7
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