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TIL: Modern sewage systems in the USA are designed to accommodate a peak demand or 'Super Flush' at halftime of the Super Bowl, the one time of the year that everyone uses the toilet at the same time.

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jQEM TIL that when a British captive officer challenged french Navy officer Surcouf with the words “You French fight for money while we fight for honour”, Surcouf replied “Each of us fights for what he lacks most”.
OG6Ve TIL there was a meme in the early 2000s where a picture of an owl and the text "O RLY?" was used to mock or question the legitimacy of a statement.
neQLP TIL That a printer could not be found to manufacture Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar in the United States. Instead, editor Ann Beneduce located a printer in Japan that was able to produce the book.
VMynB TIL that Battlefield Earth, a 1982 science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, has been praised by numerous fantasy and science fiction authors, among them Neil Gaiman, Frederik Pohl, and Kevin J. Anderson
78oAb TIL Origins of masturbation are traced to primates 40 million years ago