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TIL adult diapers outsell baby diapers in Japan.

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x6Zdo TIL that the future PM of the Netherlands, Victor Marijnen, was involved in having a young man castrated in retaliation for reporting abuse by monks at the children's home Marjinen ran.
DQKZD TIL that Latimer Road tube station has automated announcements asking people not to take photos of the adjacent Grenfell Tower, partly out of respect for the people who died there and partly so that camera flashes don't distract tube drivers
0dpY5 TIL that before the world's first nuclear explosion, the chance that the earth would be vaporized by the explosion was estimated at "slightly less than 3 in 1,000,000".
8axd8 TIL that a cow kicked open the door on a 2-story trailer and jumped out on the way to the slaughterhouse in order to give birth to her baby girl
9RkG TIL one of the founding members of modern Wicca pretended to raise the dead by reading a Swiss roll recipe backwards.