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TIL It is now possible to navigate a houseboat from Paris to Moscow

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LkP8p TIL After almost 50 years of use and dubbed as the largest landfill in the world, the Staten Island NY landfill has slowly coming back to life as a park (Freshkills Park). The bucolic rolling meadows conceal a topography that's made entirely of garbage.
X0PYP TIL that poet and cartoonist Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree) was also a frequent writer and illustrator for Playboy. His biographer believes he had sex with hundreds or thousands of women over the course of many visits to the Playboy mansion.
lBe5 TIL Aristotle taught that women need to come to orgasm in order to produce a child
jMOj TIL President LBJ Owned an Amphibious Car, the Amphicar, and used it to scare guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure
p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.