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TIL that covering the toilet seat with paper in public restrooms doesn’t do anything to protect your cheeks from germs

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XG8r TIL in 2008 Monty Python decided to start their own Youtube channel. They uploaded HQ videos of their sketches which in only a few days resulted in a 16,000% increase in DVD box set sales.
VaPZ TIL JRR Tolkien was responsible for many W word definitions we have today in the Oxford English Dictionary
DyRj TIL that there was a tiny 20 soldier Civil War battle in Arizona. Every year the state holds a re-enactment, which has become so popular that the re-enactment typically features significantly more soldiers than the actual battle did.
kOea5 TIL Jonathan; a Tortoise Living on St. Helena, is the oldest confirmed living terrestrial animal on Earth. He is 186. When he was born George Washington had only been dead 33 years...and Abraham Lincoln was 22 years old.
jLav TIL that in 1873 William Shanks spent 15 years of his life calculating pi to 707 places, BY HAND. However The Last Few Years Were Wasted– He Made A Mistake After The 527'th Digit.