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TIL that 1 in 3 young men in the US report having no intercourse.

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P1AnJ TIL a potato chip called The Whole Shabang was made for American prisons. The chips, described as a combination of salt & vinegar and BBQ, were so popular among ex-inmates that a gray market sprung up to get them out of prisons. The manufacturer finally started selling them to the public in 2016.
rRoRo TIL that a man by the name of John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Regan to impress Jodie Foster, who he stalked.
OR4X TIL that South Africa was one of the few countries that was unable to watch the Moon Landing live in 1969. Television was banned in South Africa at the time because there were fears that it would promote race mixing against nonwhites as the country was under Apartheid
MeLK0 TIL that there is a religious group in Japan who believes that Jesus didnt die on the cross. Instead it was his kid brother Isukiri. Jesus instead went to Japan and lived there until he was 106 years old. His grave is found in Shingo and thousands of pilgrims and pagans go there ever year.
D1mlj TIL that beer was banned in Iceland until March 1, 1989, which is now celebrated annually as Beer Day. Iceland outlawed all forms of alcohol in 1915, but within 20 years had unbanned all alcoholic beverages except for beer.