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TIL that “pig toilets” (combination toilets/feeding troughs) were once common in China and western India.

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Y7xBA TIL that Wacker Drive in Chicago has three levels and is the only street in the city to have addresses with all four cardinal directions (N,S, E, W).
4kvG5 TIL The film The Thing (1982) initially received heavily negative reviews upon its release, only to later be considered a masterpiece.
N7yEM TIL despite the huge size of whales, their pupils are only about 50% larger than those of humans. However, this still means they can hypothetically see stars about one magnitude fainter than we can, revealing 2.5 times more stars. Giant deep-sea squids have pupils some 10 times wider than whales.
WkJmo TIL the world's largest hydroelectric dam is being built in the Congo River. It could generate 40,000 megawatts of energy and provide 40% of Africa's electricity
Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.