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TIL that pornhub offered a “save the boobs!” Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the “big tit” or “small tit” category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations

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epk9D TIL about Leah Betts, a girl who made headlines after dying from taking a single ecstasy pill, did not die directly from the drug. Instead, she died from drinking 7 liters of water in 90 minutes. Ecstasy causes water retention, which can make even slightly high water consumption fatal.
v1Box TIL Humans hear anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than they see so that everything that they perceive with their ears is coloring every other perception they have, and every conscious thought they have. Sound gets in so fast that it modifies all the other input and sets the stage for it.
v1YYj TIL the restrooms on the 103rd floor of the Willis (Sears) Tower, at 1,353 feet (412.4 m) high, are the highest in the Western Hemisphere, relative to street level
WaDN TIL that when Crispin Glover was recast after Back to the Future Part 1, the crew was able to reverse cast prosthetics made for Glover to make a doppelganger for part 2 and 3. Glover sued, won and the Screen Actors Guild made a rule that no film can use the likeness of an actor without consent.
KOZbG TIL The Earth loses hundreds of tons of oxygen to space. This happens at places near the poles, called polar cusps where the solar wind can collide with Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily the process will take billions of years to strip away the atmosphere completely.