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TIL that May is National Masturbation Month

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JoL8 TIL Big Ben Clock Towers time is kept accurate by adding or removing pennies on its pendulum changing the clock’s speed by +/- 0.4 seconds per day
JYm91 TIL that hotcakes (à la "selling like hotcakes") are in fact pancakes; hotcakes and pancakes are synonymous... except in Japan where hotcakes are sweeter and lighter than pancakes.
XEV7k TIL Liechtenstein's flag was once identical to Haiti's, but Liechtenstein did not realize this until delegations from the two countries met at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Liechtenstein added a crown to their flag in 1937 in response.
rbr1 TIL If you receive merchandise (for example: from an online vender) that you didn’t order, you have a legal right to keep it as a “free gift”, and you aren’t even legally obliged to notify the seller you’re going to keep it.
vV54 TIL Dorothy’s slippers were silver in the original Wizard of Oz, but changed to ruby slippers to take advantage of Technicolor.