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TIL Japan sells more adult diapers than baby diapers.

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DQMxg TIL both of the Presidents Roosevelt were in the Harvard Glee Club
PYxpe TIL that Rabies causes hydrophobia because the virus multiplies and assimilates in the salivary glands of the infected animal for the purpose of further transmission through biting. Its transmission abilities would decrease if the infected individual could swallow saliva and water.
6969J TIL a British Airways flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing due to an overpowering smell caused by a passenger's smelly poo.
Gv75 TIL the Japanese maglev bullet train, Shinkansen, sports a sterling record of zero fatalities over its 50 years of operations
DwoV TIL: The human brain has a memory capacity of approximately 2.5 petabytes (or 2.5 million gigabytes)