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TIL that a fake nude photo of an American Congresswoman was debunked by foot fetishists who recognized through extensive experience that the toes in the photo were not the Congresswoman’s

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JJXv TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.
9Yen7 Today I learned that conservationists recycle Wimbledon tennis balls as predator-proof shelters for Harvest Mice (The mice you see pictured sleeping in tulips).
PYyoJ TIL: A Man saves a drowning boy from a River, 30 Years after saving the same boys farther
woZw6 TIL German WWII steam war locomotives are still in daily use in coal trains in Bosnia
4kA4g TIL To promote his new movie Lost in Space (1998), Matt LeBlanc appeared on three different talk shows (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien), which all aired on the same day.