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

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e0w8J TIL Swedes can find out each other's salaries with just one phone call to Swedish equivalent of the IRS. The person whose information is accessed is also informed who accessed it.
69N1Y TIL that Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl never recorded the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" together in the studio. The record's producer, Steve Lillywhite, asked MacColl, his wife, to record the woman's part as a guide for someone else, but MacGowan liked it and rerecorded his part to match hers.
JNX8 TIL that Mars has only 10% the mass of the Earth.
9P5B TIL it would cost about $30 billion a year to eradicate world hunger, about as much as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
p8LWN TIL Ethel Rosenberg's execution did not go smoothly. After she was given three electric shocks, attendants removed the strapping only to have doctors determine that Ethel's heart was still beating. Two more electric shocks were applied, eyewitnesses reported that smoke rose from her head