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TIL that cruise ships dump 1 billion gallons of sewage into the ocean every year

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OG9me TIL: Sigmund Freud was initially a hypnotist and used his now-famous couch for hypnosis sessions. He continued using it for psychoanalysis, in part so people wouldn’t stare at him for eight hours a day
GA5yg TIL about Stewart Smith who, over the course of 40 years, breed non-native fish in his garage and covertly released them from his car which was outfitted with oxygenated fish tanks into New Zealand’s north island waterways for sport fishing.
9rPG TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon
XXkE TIL In Switzerland it is required by law to have a nuclear bunker in houses and other dwellings to protect citizens in the event of nuclear war or terrorist strikes.
rkRM TIL translations of the first “Austin Powers” maintain Alotta Fagina’s suggestive name, but differently; in Finnish her name means “always horny,” Polish has her as “wavy vagina,” and Canadian French makes her “happy clitoris.”