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TIL about the Bitch Wars: gulag prisoners who’d helped fight the Nazis in WW2 vs those who’d refused

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7B5M TIL Masanobu Sato, World Champion Masturbator, masturbated for 9 hours and 58 minutes without ejaculating during the annual “Masturbate-a-thon”.
Z8rpD TIL about the RED T, a nonprofit organization advocating for the protection of translators and interpreters in high-risk settings.
69Mk7 TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy 1000 copies (1,500 if a children's book) and distribute them to libraries throughout the country.
6EOZ TIL that in 2003, a German citizen was kidnapped by the CIA and beaten, stripped, violated and tortured - until they found out they had the wrong guy.
x6kjo TIL The little green and red traffic light men in southern Taiwan have got themselves girlfriends. The street crossings feature the animated red man kneeling down to propose to his girlfriend, and the green man holding his girlfriend's hand and crossing the road.