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TIL that during WWII, the Germans had official brothels for their soldiers and sailors.

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QJor9 TIL that there is a beetle and a spider named after Leonardo DiCaprio to acknowledge his work in promoting environmental awareness
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ko14 TIL that Reddit is the 135th most visited site in the world and Imgur is the 91st
6j88 TIL People don’t swallow 8 spiders a year, or likely any spiders ever.
N6MJ TIL When Jimmy Carter was a young Nuclear officer in the US Navy, they sent him to help a partial meltdown in a Canadian nuclear reactor. They built an exact copy of the reactor to train with, then lowered him into the still extremely radioactive reactor to take it apart one piece at a time.