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TIL Sandals found in Fort Rock Cave have been dated to over 10,000 years old.

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wLa0W TIL that the official world record for "Longest Time Spent Masturbating" is 10 hours and 10 minutes. That record was achieved at the 2012 San Francisco "masturbatae-a-thon".
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