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TIL that there was an online cult about a lone Phone Booth in the Mojave National Preserve.

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ANrlB TIL infants initially defecate in diapers because they have not yet been taught how to use the toilet.
60ZY TIL an Ebola outbreak in Atlanta, a toxic explosion in Louisiana and a police shooting were all faked by armies of Russian social media accounts and knockoffs of US news sites posting fake eyewitness stories, screenshots, photos and videos of fake American crises.
W7Ob8 TIL that cats love eating (human) earwax. Apparently, the proteins in it smell delicious to them.
1RMV TIL people are using Google Maps to make other people aware of dangerous landmine fields in Kosovo
gMXPW TIL Quebec "unofficially" got rid of Slavery in 1798, 35 years before it was abolished, because the Chief of Justice couldn't find any laws to punish an escaped slave named Charlotte who refused to return to her master- so he set her free. Other slaves found out and started doing the same thing.