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TIL most toilets flush in E-flat.

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VBQZ8 TIL In 1982 a game called “Custer’s Revenge” was released for the Atari 2600. The aim was to have sex with a Native American woman tied to a stake
M8LK TIL that as a child, Katy Perry wasn’t allowed to eat Lucky Charms, and had to call deviled eggs “angeled eggs,” due to her parents being born-again Christians.
LQ7G9 TIL a German ocean liner built in 1930 survived two Allied sinkings in WW2. Taken as a British prize, it was renamed HMT Empire Windrush. In 1948 it famously carried a large group of West Indians to the UK. The ship caught fire and sank in 1954; all but 4 of the 1498 passengers and crew survived
yVM4V TIL that the clock of French queen Marie Antoinette is displayed in the La Salle des Espèces Menacées et des Espèces Disparues (Room of Endangered and Extinct Species) at the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution in Paris. The wing has 257 specimens, including a quagga gifted to the French royals in 1784.
dDDw8 TIL that in 2013 snipers opened fire on the Metcalf Power Substation in San Jose, California. In just under 10 minutes, they disabled 17 transformers and caused $15m in damages. The attackers are still unknown and the motive is still unknown.