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TIL I learned Penn Jillette from Penn & Teller has a patented “hot-tub with a jet specially angled for a woman’s pleasure” called Jill-Jet.

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e0XR5 TIL a 37 meter cat image was found etched on a hillside in Nazca, Peru. The feline geoglyph adds to 100s of Nazca geoglyphs made by removing surface rocks/earth to reveal contrasting earth. Discovered and restored just months ago, archaeologists say the big cat was first made between 200BC - 100 BC.
wonpW TIL I learn about underwater logging (e.g., after flooding a forested valley for a dam project) and that there are harvester robots like the Sawfish Harvester that were invented exclusively for this kind of operation
RWK6 TIL an obsessed fan mailed Bjork a letter bomb containing sulfuric acid with the intention of being “The one person who changed her life the most”. He painted his body and committed suicide on camera, and his 18 hour video journal of this is available on YouTube.
rR7le TIL "Wagyu beef" just means "Japanese beef beef".
QPAL TIL Mark Wahlberg (AKA Marky Mark) committed a number of unprovoked assaults, many of which were racial in nature, and one of which permanently blinded his victim.