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TIL in 2012, Kesha admitted that she would demand men entering her tour bus to drop their trousers and let her take pictures of their genitals, specifically for the purposes of emasculating them and letting them know they were in the "vagina jungle"

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ANk1w TIL in 1985, the song "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" gained notoriety at an lowa radio station when a DJ played the song 27 times back-to-back during a morning show. The DJ, who was suspended, was reportedly depressed and upset that a co-worker had left the job.
Ma18 TIL when F. Scott Fitzgerald died, he thought he was a failure, and his work forever forgotten. His novel, The Great Gatsby, was reviewed poorly and had only sold 20,000 copies. It’s now considered the greatest novel in American history, and sells over 500,000 copies per year.
JEZ4 TIL During the 1970 Aspen’s sheriff’s election, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head bald so he could refer to the crew-cut, ex-army, Republican incumbent as “My long-haired opponent.”
P1Yrg TIL that less than half of all societies kiss with their lips, according to a study of 168 cultures from around the world and a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas found that only 46% use lip-to-lip kissing in a romantic sense, excluding things like parent-child kissing.
N4EE TIL Jesse Owens, 4 time Gold Medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was not invited to the White House by FDR after winning them. He said this about not being invited, “Hitler didn’t snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”