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TIL Strippers make significantly more money while they’re ovulating.

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L8GZ TIL of Tazmamart, a Moroccan secret prison for political prisoners who were cramped in single-person underground cells 24 hours a day and not allowed any light or human contact
0w7rN TIL that in 2014, Afroman made a remix of his 2001 song 'Because I Got High' where he changed the lyrics to reflect the positive aspects of getting high
Brd0y TIL Sergei Prokofiev died the same day as Stalin in 1953. Millions attended Stalin's funeral, but only 40 for Prokofiev's. A musical periodical noted his death on p. 116, with pages 1 to 115 devoted to Stalin. Flowers were so scarce in Moscow that Prokofiev's family used cuttings from house plants.
nWeXo TIL that after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his wins, seven successive Tour de France races (1999-2005) were officially declared without winners because so many riders who finished behind Armstrong were also associated with doping offences.
W19 TIL in WWII, both Allied and Axis forces, specifically pilots, were known to be methamphetamine users, so much so that it was nicknamed “Pilot’s Salt”.