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TIL of Big Sister, a brothel in Prague where clients could have sex for free after they signed a contract agreeing to be filmed. All rooms in the Big Sister house were equipped with web cams and the ‘action’ streams live via the Internet.

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RDN9 TIL: Assassins Creed was originally going to be a Prince of Persia sequel
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yYlJ TIL of a Malawian teenager who taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
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KyaB TIL Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the only professor at the University of Cincinatti that did not have a doctorate, although he earned his Master’s by giving a presentation on aspects of the Apollo 11 Mission