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TIL Japanese bathrooms can include a "yokushitsu kansouki" - a system which turns showers into dehumidifiers, negating the need for bulky tumble dryers in tight living quarters

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rKA1 TIL of Connecticut’s famous hobo “The Leatherman”, a vagrant who traveled a 365 mile loop through CT & NY and whose timing so precise we was seen in each location every 34 days.
0Gdy TIL that a major cause of human rabies deaths in India is faith healing as people believe that they’ve been impregnated by puppies after being bitten by a dog and consult a healer instead of a doctor before it’s too late. This mass hysteria is called Puppy pregnancy syndrome.
jOmR TIL a group of panda is called an Embarrassment.
jNoR TIL that TRON (1982) was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because the Academy felt using computers was “cheating”.
erKE TIL at 52, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married 18-year-old Mandy Smith but divorced after a year. Bill’s 30-year-old son then Stephen married Mandy’s mother, age 46. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father’s father-in-law and his own grandpa.