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TIL: China’s ongoing toilet revolution aims to replace open-pit latrines with safe, sanitary toilets and septic systems, to reduce the spread of parasites and diseases, and improve waste treatment.

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Z6oQ TIL the visual effects rendered in Interstellar used pages of theoretical equations from physicist Kip Thorne and gave new insights into gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes that led to three published scientific papers.
9Yj1D TIL, you can be cremated and and turned into a “Natural Reef” which is eco-friendly.
ZX9p TIL That West Virginia is the only state to have seceded from another state. in 1871 Virginia took West Virginia to the Supreme court to force its return.
AN9rd TIL that the reason you get chills from a fever isn't because you're physically cold. It's the brain setting your body temp higher to fight the infection and tricking your body into thinking the temperature is wrong so the chills can help increase heat.
VDLp TIL Andie MacDowell’s first big break was the role of Jane in “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,” but her lines were dubbed by Glenn Close because her Southern accent was too pronounced for her to play the role of an Englishwoman. Ironically, in the original book, Jane was an American Southerner.