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TIL there is a porn site that lets you find porn actresses that match a picture you upload or link.

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9wwYr TIL Playboy founder Hugh Hefner created an award named after him to annually recognize people who protect the First Amendment rights of Americans.
b99mp TIL that since 1405 until the present day without interruption, the city of Lausanne (Switzerland) has maintained a lookout in the Cathedral bell tower. The lookout announces the time by yelling the hour from 10 pm to 2 am, 365 days a year. The lookout cries the hour to each cardinal direction
bYQE TIL the first human cardiac catheterization was done by Werner Forssmann who, after failing to get permission from his department chief, anesthetized his arm, inserted a catheter into his vein and threaded it into his heart. He then walked down to the X-ray department and took a picture to prove it
VBLk0 TIL comedian Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan originally chose as his epitaph "I told you I was ill" (Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite)
aw5ZJ TIL 'Red Cross' goes by Red Crescent in most of the Islamic countries as the Ottomans deemed the 'Cross' offensive to their religious sensibilities despite it being derived from the Swiss Flag . In 1983 the name of the organization was changed to "International Red Cross & Red Crescent Movement"