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TIL that the UK’s porn filter architect was arrested on child porn offences.

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wLkw7 TIL: One of the world's biggest mysteries is a 19' granite monument sitting on one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, GA. The Georgia Guidestones are engraved in eight different languages and the first of ten guides or commandments etched in stone is: “1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000”
OG8v4 TIL in 18th Century Japan, a woman farting in public was considered so embarrassing that it could break off an engagement. Some women would employ a Heoi-bikuni (fart carrying nun) to accompany them everywhere, whose job was to take the blame for their farts.
ewpE TIL that ‘Seinfeld’ has earned over $2.7 billion since it went off air in 1998.
Y7KDG TIL the corpse of an astronaut monkey is preserved at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with its hand placed over its heart