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TIL the Indian government commissioned a 2-hour Bollywood feature film called "Toilet", designed to help eradicate the practice of public defecation.

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4k6N TIL Blazing Saddles’ Governor William J Le Petomane was named after a French flatulist - a professional farter.
PYovg TIL that when emperor Hui of Jin ( 259-307) was informed that his people were starving from a rice famine, he replied with the famous chinese version of let them eat cake: "why don't they eat meat porridge?"
gMEe9 TIL If college students work while going to college their employers can count up to $5200 of their pay as tuition reimbursement and make that amount tax deductible for the student. Only a few percent of employers utilize this.
e0YOg TIL airplanes that fly the advertising banners do not take off with the signs. They lower a grappling hook and grab them from the ground.
ZQP4 TIL In 1995 New Mexico state senator Duncan Scott introduced an amendment that psychologists were required to wear a wizard’s hat when they testify in court.