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TIL that the "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis is currently being investigated for violence and coercion.

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5kyQ TIL 77 million Americans are served by water systems that violate testing requirements or rules about contamination in drinking water
yQGaM TIL of Odette Hallowes a British WWII Spy who was recruited when she mistakenly mailed pictures of the French coastline to the wrong dept. She was stationed in France and survived 14 interrogations by the Gestapo. (more in comments)
OojV6 TIL that gamblers in the old west were rarely playing poker, despite representations in films, games and other media. A card game called "faro" was the most popular form of gambling in the US until the early 1900's.
p8YLe TIL when men don't masturbate for 7 days their testosterone levels increase by 45.7%.
OoRNX TIL that the language of Venice, Venetian or "Venetan", is not Italian nor a dialect of it, but a separate member of the Romance family spoken by close to four million people in north-eastern Italy.