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TIL a New Jersey Councilman apparently urinated on a crowd of people in 2008

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x6E1b TIL that a 68-year-old inmate in Malta was fined €800 for telling the former prisons director and two guards to “kiss my balls”, but he appealed the sentence and won
9Y5eM TIL during the very first direct presidential election in Singapore (1993), one of the only two candidates was there only to make the election contested, and told supporters not to campaign for him. He still got 41.3% of the vote
AMZg TIL crocodilians (e.g. crocodiles, alligators, and caimans) are more closely related to birds than they are to any other existing reptile species
kBw4 TIL that in 1941 the English tried to make “rat bombs” out of actual rat carcasses to use against the Germans.
gMVnb TIL The Mesopotamian Empire and the Babylonian Empire were the first civilizations to introduce the use of sanitary sewerage system.