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TIL: All disabled toilets in the UK use the same key and all disabled people are entitled to a copy of it.

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M77nW TIL Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is in Dauphin County. It was named Dauphin to thank France for the help in the Revolutionary War. A Dauphin is the heir to the French Throne. Sadly the young prince Louis Joseph died of tuberculosis 4 years later and his parents lost their heads shortly after.
v5AL TIL that the day after Thanksgiving isn’t referred to as “Black Friday” because of the profits seen by retailers, but was originally coined by traffic cops in Philadelphia to describe the disastrous traffic conditions
xjZk TIL that Hitler tore up the German constitution after he declared the burning of the Reichstag as a terrorist operation that allowed him to kill his enemies, wage war and is widely seen as a false flag operation.
ne7BP TIL when poisonous frogs are fed zoo diets they no longer become poisonous. The wide variety of food in the wild supplies them with the chemicals for making poison.
OGAEY TIL about Alexander Abian, an Iowa State professor who thought that blowing up the Moon would end natural disasters on Earth