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TIL W.T. Stead, a Victorian investigative journalist writing about child prostitution, bought an underage sex slave to prove how easily it could be done. He was sent to prison.

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mDeP TIL that Vegas is running out of water and electricity. After a 14-year drought, experts say that the water level in the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam which provides Vegas with water and power is now well below half full.
V4E8 TIL of Justo Gallego Martínez, a 90 year old former monk who is building an unauthorized cathedral in spain since 1961. He works mostly alone for ten hours a day, six days a week.
LGDd TIL a Canadian inventor tried to create a “supergun” which could fire satellites into orbit from a 512 foot-long barrel embedded inside a hill. When Western funding failed, he turned to military application of his ideas for Saddam Hussein, but then he was assassinated in Brussels.
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XENZk TIL Researchers at the University of Montreal were attempting a study on the behaviour of men who watch pornography compared to those who don’t but were unable to find any men who hadn’t consumed porn