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TIL that hitting objects with your penis (flacid, half erect) in The Netherlands has it’s own word. Swaffelen. (Swaffeling)

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Z6kG TIL the US Navy built a replica ship in the middle of New York City during World War One to boost recruitment. It was staffed by a full crew who stood guard, slept on board and manned wooden guns. It helped enlist 25,000 men.
awWKZ TIL in 2012 three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, managed to break into an US government nuclear complex, paint anti-war slogans on the enriched uranium storage building, and spend several hours in the complex before being stopped by a lone guard.
dPr8 TIL that if a norwegian loses his/her job or can’t find a job, the state will pay you a salary until you find a job. It’s called NAV.
OGO4X TIL that in 2017 and 2018, three academics submitted hoax articles, among them a Mein Kampf Passage rewritten with feminist lingo, into Gender and Race research journals in order to expose corruption in the field they called "grievance studies" They got away with it until their public reveal in 2018
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