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TIL Schools in Japan don’t employ custodial staff, because they believe students should respect their learning environment and keep it clean themselves

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J1vOQ TIL that Gwenyth Paltrow once endorsed the practice of steam cleaning your vagina where “you sit on what is essentially a mini throne, and a combination of infrared and mugwort steam cleanses your uterus”. There has been no evidence that steam cleaning has any benefits.
wLDYW TIL Spider-Man's trademark web-swinging technique in "The Amazing Spider-Man" was done using practical effects instead of the cgi used in the previous films. They built a giant rig that allowed a stuntman to swing from a thin cable attached to a winch over and through the real streets of NYC.
d8vEj TIL that the decibel (dB) scale is logarithmic instead of linear. The difference between a rock band and an airplane taking off is only about 10dB.
p8A7p TIL in 2009 2nd baseman Eric Bruntlett made errors on back-to-back pitches putting runners on 1st & 2nd. He then made an unassisted triple play to end the game
XxQD TIL that solid iron cannonballs kept underwater for a long time can explode once they reach the surface- [gas bubbles are trapped underwater at enormous pressure- once at surface, pressure is no longer equalized from within and without- ergo explosion potential]