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TIL the Navy SEALs that killed bin laden got stealth series fleshlights as a ‘thank you’ from the company.

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R5578 TIL limes are only green because they are unripe. They are sent that way to stores because they’re easier to ship. Unlike oranges and lemons, limes don’t ripen once picked, so they stay green. Ripe limes are yellow.
mrKP TIL Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, has long maintained his iconic work is not about censorship, but ‘useless’ television destroying literature. He has even walked out of a UCLA lecture after students insisted his book was about censorship.
5jp8 TIL That burritos are legally classified as sandwiches in New York, but not in Massachusetts.
kLG4 TIL Isla Kock also known as the “The Bitch of Buchenwald” was a Nazi who was known for her sadistic abusive methods towards her prisoners in which she often killed them and had them skinned alive to use to make items such as Lamp Shades. The Purse she proudly carried around was made from human skin
nee79 TIL Marlon Brando was the last person to reject a winning Oscar award (1973 best actor for The Godfather). He did it to protest the film industry's poor treatment of Native Americans. When a young Native American woman gave her speech in Brando's place, part of the crowd booed.