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TIL The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators

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kwnm TIL the Canadian government forcibly relocated Inuit to the most northern parts of the country during the Cold War in order to assert its sovereignty in the area
oBXL8 TIL of Kösem Sultan who made donations to the poor, paid people's debts, supplied poor daughters with clothes and wed them, freed slaves after 3 years, in addition to building mosques, & schools. She was given the name Valide-i Muazzama (magnificent mother) upon her death.
vwnx TIL Dr. Dre beat a woman for calling him a faggot on a record.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
Wk4XX TIL despite what Cartoons tell us, Bananas are like candy to Monkeys and should only be fed as an occasional treat only to them; having too much can result in diabetes