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TIL that squatting while pooping quickens the deed and may be more healthy

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wo6xo TIL that the power density in the Solar core is about 276.5watts/m3, less than the power density produced by the metabolism of an adult human.
7rEMb TIL of Soviet spy, Gevork Vartanian, who stopped the Nazi assassination of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the age of 19; 400 German agents were arrested/killed because of his efforts, and the assassination was ultimately prevented.
RDL4 TIL that Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” had a $6,000,000 budget but only made $1900
gQ4b TIL that planet earth is the only planet that is not named after any god but after the word “ertha” meaning ground or soil
5DgP TIL Butterfly McQueen, one of the stars of “Gone with the Wind,” was unable to attend the film’s premiere because it was held in a whites-only theater