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TIL that one town had enough injuries due to men masturbating with vacuum cleaners that its doctor became an unintentional “expert on vacuum-involved penile injuries.”

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4XEkX TIL J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, served in WW2 and landed on D-Day while carrying the first six chapters of the book with him. At the end of the war he checked himself into a mental institution. When he got out, he signed back up and participated in the denazification of Germany.
nWvZo TIL - Sixty Years Ago, NASA Scientists Found That Women Would Be Better Astronauts. Their Work Was Never Published.
jXPX TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
aZJJ TIL that Stephen Hawking’s fear of aliens comes from the possibility of aliens enslaving us based on the reality that we’ve done that to our selves in the past when a more technologically advanced civilization encountered a less technologically advanced civilization.
Vgom TIL that Vatican state owns a observatory telescope in south-west Arizona