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GYjQG TIL that Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Joe Walsh of The Eagles and Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis of Devo were all eyewitnesses to the Kent State Massacre.
9r0r TIL that a tape indicated only one person objected to Jim Jones before the mass suicide in Jonestown where over 900 died and she was shouted down by the rest of the group.
Z8nJG TIL splash back from a pee stream can be virtually eliminated by decreasing one’s pee stream distance to approximately 13cm/5.2in as it prevents the formation of droplets through Plateau-Rayleigh instability.
DQPAg TIL amputees who experience Phantom Itching where their limb use to be often use a mirror and scratch the opposite limb to trick the brain into satisfying the urge.
dXGQ TIL there had been an eruption of methane from Uranus