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TIL: “In France, nearly 96% of high schools…have condom vending machines”

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YpvWv TIL there is a small area of Upstate New York that is actually east of Vermont, outside the town of Whitehall, New York in Washington County. The boundary is the Poultney River, with Vermont on the west side, and New York on the east.
yAkX TIL former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a sexual maniac who nicknamed his penis “Jumbo” and he would often urinate in public. If anyone confronted him while doing so, he would turn around and say “have you ever seen anything as big as this?”
KxDR TIL that the directors for Guardians of the Galaxy wrote a script with actual dialogue for Vin Diesel so that he would know what inflections to give when he said his lines as “I am Groot”.
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pYYbO TIL after a disastrous flaw and costly repairs to the Hubble telescope dented public trust, Bob Williams was called crazy to bet his job and 10 precious days for observing "nothing" near the Big Dipper. The result was revolutionary beyond imagination, the first Hubble Deep Field photo