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TIl Benjamin Kyle is the only American citizen officially listed as missing dispute his whereabouts being known

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R0b7 TIL the Japanese word for male masturbation is “Senzuri” (“a hundred rubs”), while female masturbation is “Shiko shiko manzuri” (“ten thousand rubs”).
x69Xo TIL there are 16,000 acres of sand dunes in Alaska - Kobuk Valley National Park
woeB7 TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.
N7vBP TIL that drachma (ancient Greek currency) was used in Greece for over 3,000 years from approximately 1100 BC until it was replaced in 2001 by the euro
OZaa TIL that the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant houses of worship at Brandeis University were built near each other and “in such a way so that when the sun sets, no one chapel casts a shadow on another.”