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TIL Some water main pipes in Philadelphia are still made of wood

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npP7 TIL that in Singapore anyone born in the year 2000 or later is forever banned from buying cigarettes or any other tobacco related product.
5Gwr TIL of a woman whose skin grew around a toilet seat she had ben sitting on for 2 years. Her boyfriend gave her food and water until calling authorities to say there was “something wrong” with his girlfriend. Her legs had atrophied and she had to be removed with the seat.
kOx1g TIL That cannibalism puts you at risk for prion disease (similar to mad cow), particularly if you eat human brains and bone marrow.
M88b TIL that Isaac Asimov contracted HIV from a blood transfusion received during his bypass operation in 1983. His physicians advised him against going public, warning that the anti-AIDS prejudice would likely extend to his family members. He died from HIV complications in 1992.
4kLP6 TIL Neolithic houses had doorways on the roof.