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TIL Nintendo ran a chain of sex hotels in the ‘50s and '60s.

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PWGO TIL Portugal decriminalised the possession of all drugs for personal use in 2001. The reality is that Portugal’s drug situation has improved. Most notably, HIV infections and drug-related deaths have decreased, while the dramatic rise in use feared by some has failed to materialize.
pY5DQ TIL that Minoru Yamasaki, the architect for the World Trade Center towers, never lived to see the attacks on 9/11. He died in 1986 at the at age of 73 from stomach cancer.
nwJb TIL: Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct within the next 10,000 years.
PYbew TIL of Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights leader and advisor to MLK who singlehandedly shaped his non-violent protest methods. He was forced to resign to protect the movement when a congressman threatened to fabricate a story of an affair between him and King to dissuade protests in his district.
rPa0 TIL a serving of raw sauerkraut has more probiotic bacteria than an entire bottle of probiotic supplements