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

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r6D1 TIL that Gearbox Software dedicated an entire achievement and a NPC in their hit game Borderlands 2 to Michael Mamaril, a huge fan of the game who passed away at the age of 22 due to a terminal illness.
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