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TIL there is a significant portion of humans who stand up to wipe their ass?

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omjY TIL that in La Paz, Bolivia, there are isolated “hotel rooms” where alcoholics can, for a small fee, go to drink themselves to death without fear of interruption. Aptly, they are known as “Elephant Graveyards”.
QJk5d TIL While rendering Toy Story, Pixar named each and every rendering server after an animal. When a server completed rendering a frame, it would play the sound of the animal, so their server farm will sound like an actual farm.
Egr9P TIL the name of the fighting machine the "Tank" got its name because of subterfuge, as the British wanted to pass them off as water tanks bound for Russia.
grKny TIL that in pre-modern China, poor families adopted girls to make sure their sons will be able to marry in future while other poor families with unwanted girls gave away their daughters.
8ajGX TIL that a clean room used in chip manufacturing is thousands of times cleaner than a operating room. Chip manufacturing clean rooms have 10 particles per cubic meter while ORs allow 10,000 particles per cubic meter.