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TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson referred to his penis as Jumbo and would regularly pull it out and show people asking if they had ever seen one so big

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QJkgE TIL that the town of Boring, Oregon's sister city is Dull, Scotland. "Dull has helped put Boring on our map," says OR state representative, Bill Kennemer. "People are starting to hear about Boring and they come and stop." The town is now developing a relationship with the Australian town of Bland.
W7LXY TIL Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a compound word that means "Atoning for being educable through delicate beauty."
yQJ6w TIL the Jane Fonda story of betraying American POWs is false. Video of one of the POWs refuting the claim in article.
wLxZo TIL that the Black Plague caused a revolution in Medieval England by decimating serf communities, thereby significantly decreasing the available work force. The surviving serfs were able to exert hitherto unimaginable pressure of their lords, resulting in higher pay and more liberties.
WkV0Y TIL: The US tried to hide nuclear missiles in Greenland without Danish knowledge in Project Iceworm.