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TIL: Japan has an S&M-themed gym where a professional dominatrix is your personal trainer.

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1BAd TIL there is a secret room inside Mt. Rushmore that contains porcelain enamel panels with text from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights sealed in a teakwood box, placed in a titanium vault, and sealed shut under the weight of a 1,200 pound granite capstone.
grDvW TIL in 2005, Sony spent over a million dollars to drop 250,000 bouncy balls off one of the steepest streets in San Francisco, breaking windows and destroying cars in the process.
y6m8 TIL the US government killed an estimated 10,000 people by intentionally poisoning alcohol during prohibition
wLVx6 TIL that, in order to evade taxes, "Hollywood accounting" is so egregious that the Lord of the Rings trilogy "made horrendous losses and no profit at all"
Re4j TIL Turbotax, an American tax filling company, invested money in lobbying to keep tax return filling as confusing as possible, ensuring customers for their business.