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TIL Of St. Priapus Church, a religion based on the worship of penises. Fellatio is seen as a commandment, a good deed which has positive effects not just for the recipient but for society in general, a practice facilitating world peace.

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JYnZm TIL that Kent released a cigarette in 1952 with a filter made out of asbestos (branded as a "micronite filter"). they sold 13 billion of these cigarettes before being discontinued in 1956 and they are suspected of causing many mesothelioma cases
G865 TIL of the International Dark Sky Association, an organization dedicated to fighting light pollution and preserving the night sky in areas around the planet called dark sky reserves.
oBdB8 TIL In 2011, a 46-year-old man tracked down and choked 13-year-old boy who had been taunting him in Call of Duty.
edEE TIL that Chuck Norris was an outspoken supporter of the Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage in California
mQpP TIL that a man survived the sinking of a ship in 1871, leaving him traumatized afterwards. Some forty years later he was finally able to overcome his fears and sail again… only to die on the Titanic.