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TIL that to clean out the sewer pipes that tended to block, the mayor of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe instituted a synchronized flush. Residents who did not comply were fined.

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YglG TIL Lord Nelson, one of the greatest British naval commanders of all time suffered from chronic sea sickness throughout his career.
xVwYo TIL that Fakhruddin Razi (d.1210), a Persian Polymath, decentred our universe-centric ideas with his conception of a multiverse. This astonishing idea happened 300 years before Copernicus' more well-known revolution of moving western astronomical knowledge from geocentric to heliocentric
7wYb TIL that Mr. Rogers saw to it that every letter he received got an answer.
0My TIL: The “Little Red-Haired Girl” in Peanuts was based off Donna Mae Johnson.After dating for three years Schulz proposed to her but she turned him down.
QG1X TIL of the Silphium plant. Used by the ancient Romans to induce abortions it was over-harvested to extinction in the 2nd or 3rd century BCE.