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

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loeZA TIL The name for a person who can speak many languages is a ‘polyglot’, not a ‘linguist’.
e0mjk TIL that in November 2000, Japan passed their first anti-stalking law after a 21 year old student was murdered by her stalker the previous year. She had been turned away multiple times by the police who denied and falsely portrayed her as a promiscuous flirt on the media.
nekJ9 TIL NYPD officer John Perry was turning in his retirement papers on 9/11 when the first plane struck. He asked for his badge back and ran to help. He was killed while assisting a woman in the south tower as it collapsed.
OoPge TIL that gay men cannot donate blood unless abstinent sexually for 12 months.
mxALP TIL Francis Crick who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA was under the influence of LSD when he first made the discovery.