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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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5xA9 TIL a survivor from the 2011 Norway attacks by Anders Breivik was arrested and detained for 17 hours because “he did not react to the carnage with the same tears and hysteria as most of the other survivors”.
oBnDY TIL there is an inland island in Canada that is larger in area than the lake in which it is situated.
4nE5 TIL that the soviets trained dogs to serve as anti-tank bombers, but because they used soviet tanks to train the dogs, the dogs attacked Russian tanks instead of their German targets.
4XkrJ TIL that Irish avant-garde playwright Samuel Beckett used to drive a young Andre the Giant to school because he was too large for the bus
m1Y7x TIL In 1959, The Coasters had a #1 R&B hit with Poison Ivy. When asked what the song was about lyricist Jerry Leiber said, "Pure and simple, 'Poison Ivy' is a metaphor for a sexually transmitted disease"