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TIL About Fat Men's Clubs, Where Status Seeking Members had to be at least 200 pounds, pay a $1 fee to enter and learn a secret handshake and password

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VBEd4 TIL That the song "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band topped the Billboard Charts twice in 1966, knocking out The Surpremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On" and The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" for the #1 spot
eJb6 TIL Ashton Kutcher is the co-founder of Thorn. Thorn is a company outsourced by the FBI to catch pedophiles and stop sex trafficking.
VKXD TIL most of the world’s major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated—in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded.
9Vnm TIL that Germany’s racing color is silver because one of their cars was barely overweight, so they just scrapped the paint off leaving the silver body. The car won and the color stuck.
Rrkw TIL there was a lull in ‘cussing’ in Rap lyrics in the mid 2000’s and we still haven’t recovered to the level of the mid 1990’s