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TIL King Edward VII of England had a special sex chair made so that he could comfortably take part in threesomes at his favorite brothel in Paris. [NSFW].

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gMLEb TIL That in order to build the Itaipu Dam on the border of Paraguay and Brazil, one of the largest waterfalls by volume, the Guaíra Falls, were redirected to form the artificial lake for the dam. 18 waterfalls in 7 groups with a volume of 1.75 million cubic feet per second disappeared overnight.
e0axJ TIL that if an Interstate is an odd number, it runs North and South and even numbered Interstates run East and West.
KOdN9 TIL Irish golfer Adam Rolston set up a 2,000 km golf hole across Mongolia. The hole was par 14,000 and took 80 days to finish. He finished the game 6,000 strokes over par.
BZJr TIL in the 1938 the Spanish created Abstract Art prison cells and used them to commit psychological torture.
rRNrW TIL - During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally led the defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son enlisted in the infanty.