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TIL a Kansas woman had to be rescued from her boyfriend’s toilet seat. After sitting on it for two years without moving, her body fat had grown attached to the seat.

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brNE TIL that the longest continuous experiment was started in 1927. The goal was to demonstrate that some substances that appear to be solid are in fact very-high-viscosity fluids. The viscosity of the pitch used is 230 billion times that of water, taking several years to form a single drop.
WkOnN TIL the oldest still existing university in the world from around 800 A.D. was founded by a woman
nl0b TIL: There’s a website that loops random movie trailers for when you can’t decide what to watch.
xQp1 TIL David Bowie was born Davy Jones but changed his name to Tom Jones to avoid confusion with the Monkees front-man. Two weeks later, Tom Jones released ‘It’s Not Unusual’ forcing him to change it again, this time to Bowie.
NXeM6 TIL that nearly 25% of the world's population is Muslim