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TIL Mr. Bubble, bubble bath, is suspected to have caused a generation of women to have a life-long predisposition to UTI’s.

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j6Kka TIL that the youngest brother of the 90s band Hanson is now an ordained Deacon of the Eastern Orthodox Church and goes by the name Deacon Mercurios.
KOZk4 TIL that in 2009, France's strict new anti-internet piracy agency got into trouble when it was discovered that its logo violated copyright, by using an unlicensed font.
d8kwE TIL that there is a zip line stretching across the border between Spain and Portugal. The journey on the zip line is over in less than one minute but when you land at the other side you are in a different time zone and will be one hour ahead, thanks to the time difference.
7r78O TIL a fighter jet landed itself, undamaged, in a field in Montana after the pilot ejected when the plane went into a flat spin during training. The plane righted itself and flew away on its own. A farmer found the plane sitting perfectly in a field hours later with the engines still running.
nWXkd TIL about the Orgone Accumulator, a 1950s device claiming to attract massless, omnipresent substance healing energy. When the FDA was investigating the device, they noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for 4 hrs"