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TIL Easter Sunday will coincide with April Fools' day in 2018 for the first time since 1956

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g189 TIL I learned there is a brothel in Switzerland called Big Sister. Entrance is $20. All drinks and ladies are free, but everything is videotaped, stored, and shown on their website.
x4Xw TIL that in 1976 a Japanese ultranationalist porn actor died after flying a plane into the house of a yakuza don to punish him for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from Lockheed & betraying the samurai code
VeR4 TIL - New York’s underground gay bars of the 1960’s (including the Stonewall Inn) were actually created and supported by the Mafia. It was illegal to be gay. The mob paid off local precincts to keep them from doing raids.
0mv TIL that for every dollar invested in space exploration, the US economy receives about $8 of economic benefits in return.
G98G TIL David Ben-Gurion, PM of Israel 1948-63, said “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country… They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”