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TIL Poo2Loo was a UNICEF led campaign in India aimed at combating “open defecation.”

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0mJA Today I Learned that a programmer that had previously worked for NASA, testified under oath that voting machines can be manipulated by the software he helped develop.
OGjrL TIL Tina Louise (Ginger on Gilligan's Island) has spent the last 20 years teaching children to read
y4QV TIL that, in a poll asking Americans whether they’d ever been decapitated, 4% or respondents replied that they had been
6E48J TIL that when the government of Kazakhstan threatened to sue Sacha Baron Cohen for the movie 'Borat', Baron Cohen (in character as Borat) replied: "I'd like to state that I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government decision to sue this Jew".
6EbVm TIL that Avengers: Endgame, the current highest-grossing film of all time with $2.8bn, is actually leapfrogged by four films when adjusted for inflation; Gone with the Wind (1939 $3.7bn), Avatar (2009 $3.3bn), Titanic (1997 $3.1bn) and Star Wars (1977 $3.0bn)