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TIL that May is National Masturbation Month

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PoKL TIL the small cloth placed over the back of your chair on a plane or a train is called an ‘antimacassar’. They are so named because they were originally used to protect the fabric of the chair from macassar oil; a very famous hair product in the Victorian period.
mxZ5O TIL that during Russia's Stalin era, praise for the quality of any aspect of U.S. life prompted the response: "Yes, but they lynch Blacks, don't they?"
R5rRj TIL that after Colonel Sanders sold KFC, he still made surprise visits to KFC restaurants. If the food disappointed him, he’d denounce it as "God-damned slop" or knock it on the floor. In 1973, KFC’s owner sued him for libel after he publicly called their gravy "sludge" with a "wall-paper taste.”
kO0am TIL that you shouldn't remove someone's helmet after a motorcycle crash unless under specific circumstances
jBPn TIL From 1800 to 1929, Americans lived through 23 recessions and four depressions, or one every 4.8 years.