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TIL “flushable wipes” should not be flushed down the toilet

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5VK4R TIL the O2 arena in Greenwich has 12 giant pillars jutting out of the roof to represent the 12 hours on a clock face, and the 12 months of the year. It also has a 365-meter diameter to represent the days in the year, and a 52-meter height to represent the weeks in a year.
bP0E TIL that before becoming a best-selling true crime author, Ann Rule worked side-by-side and alone with psychopathic serial killer Ted Bundy during the night shift at a suicide prevention hotline. While still working together, she began writing about the unsolved murders in the area.
xNw1 TIL Rick Astley has only earned $12 in royalties from the ‘RickRoll’ meme
mxkXY TIL that an American army doctor who served in Vietnam returned an arm he’d amputated to its owner, a Vietnamese soldier, 47 years after he took it as a souvenir of a good deed. They met each other’s children and grandchildren and joked about which of them had been better looking back in the war.
9GXp TIL the word “canvas” is traced to Old French canevas, which in turn may be from Vulgar Latin cannepaceus, meaning “made of hemp,” derived from the Greek word κάνναβις (cannabis).