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TIL The largest porn archive in the world belongs to Turkey’s Armed Forces

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Lk08v TIL: Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is a convicted Paedophile after he pleaded guilty to the felony “use of a child in a sexual performance”. The incident involved a 13-year-old girl performing sex acts, and he later distributed videos of the incident online as part of a music video.
dYLZ TIL Walmart paid employees of “Walmart de Mexico” in company scrip vouchers usable only at Walmart stores until a court ruling in 2008.
D54Y TIL Russians have a word “Zapoi” to describe several days of continuous drunkeness during which one withdraws from society.
Xml6 TIL the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest lake in the world, has been steadily shrinking since the 1960’s. It’s now 1/10th the original size. Nearly 90% of the water has now given way to sandy desert with wrecks of beached boats dotting the surface.
nWXR9 TIL of the Cycloped, a "train" entered into the Rainhill Trials, a competition between engineers to design the most efficient locomotive. It consisted of a horse on treadmill, could only reach speeds of 5 MPH, and was disqualified after it fell through the platform.