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TIL in 1995 May was declared “Masturbation Month”

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d8dVr TIL, Abraham Lincoln regularly hid important documents and letters under his hat.
D14PY TIL that Milton Hershey kept his employees working during the Great Depression by having them construct buildings in Hershey, PA including a school, arena and hotel. When a steam shovel was brought in for construction, Hershey told his foreman to get rid of the shovel and hire 40 men instead.
WkNWN TIL George Clooney once gave 14 of his closest friends each $1M in cash, and even paid the taxes on it for them - with one condition: they all had to take it or none of them got it.
8ae8V TIL the US Senate has only voted to expel a member once, in 1862.
4kXa5 TIL about Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, a Paraguayan army major general who launched a coup against the dictator Alfredo Stroessner, successfully managed to overthrow and exile him, re-democratized Paraguay, signed a Paraguayan constitution with presidential term limits into law, and then stepped down.