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TIL A woman who threw her poo out of her Tinder date's toilet window because it "would not flush" had to be rescued by emergency services after she got stuck trying to retrieve it.

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4PMb TIL that in Paraguay, 2004, almost 400 people died and nearly 500 got injured in a supermarket fire, because the owners locked all the doors to prevent people from fleeing without paying for merchandise.
XLLQ TIL Rocker singer Ted Nugent pissed and shit on himself for a week and lived in his own excrement in order for him not to be drafted into the Vietnam war.
DVVr TIL the U.S. is running out of Plutonium-238, which is necessary for space missions because only nuclear power can provide reliable energy so far from the sun for such an extended period of time
ne5NW TIL the word "Ye" on nostalgic signs (Ye Old Tavern, etc) is supposed to be a Middle-English translation of "The". However, Ye was never actually a word- a character called a Thorn (þ) made a "TH" sound, so it would be spelled 'þe Old Tavern', reading as 'The Old Tavern.'
b087 TIL Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope from the America’s, the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first Non-European Pope in 1,272 years. I think he is also the first Pope to be a nightclub bouncer.