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TIL a lack of toilets costs India more than $50 billion a year, mostly through premature deaths and hygiene-related diseases.

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yOeX TIL Jimmy Carter has severed his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention in protest of their treatment of women
5Dj9 TIL that in 2009 two nuclear submarines (French and British) collided into one another in the Atlantic… because they couldn’t detect one another.
dDZxE TIL that some species of jumping spiders display twitching behaviours consistent with REM-like sleep, suggesting that they likely sleep and dream.
EgKdd TIL wearing red clothing makes men more into you
ADKJn TIL cows in the U.S. are repeatedly impregnated (often by artificial insemination) so they can make milk nearly year-round.