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bgJQ TIL that Japanese women would keep flushing continuously to mask the sound of them urinating and so devices were introduced which would keep producing the sound of flushing after activation in almost all the public restrooms.
Egrpw TIL in 2003 two Australian teens spent 22 hours in a tree above rising floodwaters after a crocodile killed their friend and showed off his body to them. The 13-foot crocodile then stalked them in their tree all night and most of the morning they were stuck there, before being rescued by helicopter.
awAX0 TIL that the company that makes Nutella, Ferrero is the world's largest consumer of hazelnuts, buying around 25% of global production in 2014.
loJpV TIL that using his knowledge of telephone systems, Kevin Poulsen, alias “Dark Dante,” hacked the phone lines of a radio station to become the winning caller for a brand new Porsche. He was sentenced to 5 years and banned from using computers for years. Later he reinvented himself as a journalist.
KOXEJ TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.