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TIL Pornhub announced it would be making a kinetic energy electric generator, aimed primarily at males, which uses the motion of masturbation to generate an electrical charge that can charge electronics.

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dDr1d TIL that when star NBA player Reggie Lewis died in 1993, the remaining 8 million dollars of his contract still counted against the Celtics salary cap, which prevented them from signing a player of equal value for the next three seasons.
VBnLG TIL Abu Dhabi has a 75 year lease on all of the parking meters in Chicago. In a decade they’ve already made back their investment.
JJpm TIL during initial showings of a scene in the 1903 film “The Great Train Robbery” where a character fires a gun straight at the camera, it is said audience members ducked and put their fingers in their ears, despite the film being silent; some are even said to have fired back at the screen.
QJPBM TIL that the ancient Egyptian god Set tried to prove his dominance by having sex with Horus. However, Horus threw Set's semen into a river, and spread his own on some lettuce (Set's favourite food). After eating the lettuce, Horus used the fact that his semen was inside Set to become ruler of Egypt
lodZ1 TIL Three Nile crocodiles have been found in Florida. They are the second largest crocodile and are more dangerous than the native crocodiles and alligators in Florida.