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TIL that Subaru once found its brand was well accepted amongst lesbians and embraced the idea

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OonM1 TIL Jon "NEVERDIE" Jacobs mortgaged his home to buy a virtual asteroid for $100,000. In 2005, this was the most valuable virtual item ever sold. This landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the most expensive virtual item, which he later sold for $635,000.
EyLx TIL America’s poverty line was designed with the thought that every American household had a housewife who was a skilled cook, and has only ever been adjusted for inflation.
9jA7 TIL that in 1910, Alice Stebbins Wells was sworn in as the first policewoman in the United States by the Los Angeles Police Department and was issued a standard badge. When she was accused of impersonating her husband, LAPD presented her with “Policewoman’s Badge Number One”.
ZAeG TIL Adolf Hilter invented the concept of blow up sex dolls in order to combat siphilis and homosexual activities between his soldiers.
wLRDY TIL The chief prosecutor for the United States in the Nuremberg Trials was Ben Ferencz, a 27 year old Jewish American lawyer who had never tried a case before. He investigated Nazi war crimes and went on to help establish the International Criminal Court. He's still alive today at 101.