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TIL that back in the 1940s there was a male-only "Penthouse Club" at the Walt Disney Studios for their top animators, including a rooftop patio where they used to take nude sunbaths. They had to stop when it became known that nuns in the neighboring hospital were peeking at them

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VB004 TIL on 12 December 2017, the Portuguese Navy commemorated the 700th anniversary of its official creation by King Denis of Portugal. Tracing its origins back to the 12th century, it is the oldest continuously serving navy in the world.
YpZP TIL that America’s Debt Is Greater than Entire Eurozone’s (and U.K.’s) Combined Debt
Bb4b TIL 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY was made before the first color image of earth existed.
OW8L TIL psychologist Dan Ariely and others earned the 2008 Ig Nobel prize in medicine “ for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine”
9b4G TIL that Fiji water company ran the slogan “Fiji, because it’s not bottled in Cleveland”. The Cleveland water dept. Took offense, and ran a test determining that Fiji water has more impurities than the cities’ tap water.